"With a decent local GPU and some free open source software like ollama and open-webui you can try 'open source' LLM models like Meta's llama, Mistral AI's mistral, or Alibaba's qwen entirely offline." Lenie Clarke has a big ol' post on Homebrew LLMs and Open Source Models
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Tzikeh asked for "Reproducible examples of AI being terrible at basic facts and tasks" and the answers are just sort of fascinating to read.
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Rhaomi posted about Google's NotebookLM (AI-powered research and writing assistant), and its interesting "unassuming" option of turning your uploaded texts, links, docs, audio clips, etc., into source material for an extremely convincing virtual podcast with the surprising "Audio Overview" tool. Read all about it ... or, in fact, listen to the podcast about us reading all about it. Amazing.
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Is it okay to date or marry your chatbot? jenfullmoon posted Give up dating or just date a bot.
detail from cover art of The Diamond Age
Thoughts about The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer from Neal Stephenson's "Diamond Age," nearly 30 years on ... gwint posted "Exorcising us of the Primer" by researcher and software engineer/designer Andy Matuschak
signal posted Ludicity's peppery thoughts about AI grifting and attendant ubiquitous bluesky ML/LLM technobabble burnout, and the Mefi community is feeling it. Likewise sweary, Lucy Mangan's Guardian review of BBC's "The Stormtrooper Scandal" about just one of the grubby, greedy tales arising from the great NFT racket, posted by ec2y. Ahhh, NFTs. 'member them? (HT to fiercekitten for the post title)
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Apocalyptic giant flying bioluminescent jellyfish destroying a city, digital art
Rhaomi entertained the Saturday night crowd in Metatalk by fulfilling requests for art by OpenAI's DALL-E 2
A robot draws itself, by OpenAI's DALL·E 2
Please do not miss Rhaomi's Opus DALL·E 2 on "the extraordinary new AI that creates anything you can imagine in a matter of seconds," including examples, explainers, demos, other projects and breakthroughs, fun stuff, deep fakes and more from the new age of synthetic media that will "hit you like a digital blitzkrieg."
ocschwar's A monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors
This stuff is crazy, it's like someone found a alien spaceship in the desert and hooked the warp engine to its own tailpipe to answer questions about the universe. — RobotVoodooPower
Cash4Lead has posted Alien Dreams: An Emerging Art Scene about AI generated art based on text prompts, and mefites have been dipping a toe in.
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Some of the leading utilities with the highest risk of lines being encroached from vegetation simply can't physically maintain all the vegetation in proximity to their assets, even if they were to full-time employ every tree contractor in North America ...
In ambrosen's post about trimming trees from a helicopter, allkindsoftime has a fascinating comment on the amazing use of advanced tech like AI and LiDAR by utility companies to triage and manage the most at-risk lines and areas for vegetation control.
Robots at the Science Museum by p_a_h (cc by)
Robot History; Cannibal Robots; Wakey-wakey, Roverbot; Robot Taxi; Robot Fears; Injury Bot; Roboraptor vs Puppies; shittyrobots tag; Bite my shiny metal asp; Space Robots for everyone; Robot playlist for kiddo.
Trophy by Matt Newfield (cc by-nd)
Doroteo Arango II, in the fun Menace 2 artificial intelligence thread, who lost the original school competition, but learned what every young science scholar needs to know: "Sex sells, bribery works, presentation trumps content, and everyone likes free stuff. If you want to sell science, make it shiny and sexy, and give free food."
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