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Can you think of any category of software that doesn't eventually have an open source alternative? There are many open source projects orders of magnitude more
by valine 4y ago
Can you think of any category of software that doesn't eventually have an open source alternative? There are many open source projects orders of magnitude more complicated than a LLM. The linux kernel, Blender, Firefox, etc.
These LLMs aren't inherently complicated to implement, just expensive to train. And if the LLaMA release/leak is anything to go by we are extremely close to ChatGPT running on consumer hardware.
- jrumbut 4y agoStraining this metaphor beyond all recognition, it seems like Tony Stark's AI allows him to be the entire military industrial complex with a tiny headcount, since it's hooked up to a highly automated factory. He is able to use the AI the way he uses it because he inherited an arms company. So maybe everyone can have their own Jarvis, but theirs won't be hooked up to a factory. I guess it can help them forage for food and remind them that their rent is past due. But that's not an appealing future.
- valine 4y agoI don’t know about a factory, but 3D printers, lathes and Arduinos are pretty cheap. Even PCBs are manufacturable at home with a little creativity and patience. If you’ve ever watched Stuff Made Here on youtube, imagine people inventing things like that on a mass scale. That’s a future I want to live in, the pace of technological progress would be staggering.
- ClumsyPilot 4y ago3D printers are cute and all, but untill it can build a car engine, this is not a valid argument
- valine 4y agoI bet with a lathe, a 3d printer and AGI you could make the tools you need to build an engine. I’m not sure why you would though, since electric motors are both the future and 3D printable.
- pksebben 4y agoif it can't print a horse, what's the point?
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoWith a lathe and hand tools you Can build an engine, that's how first engines were built. If that's the criteria, AI and 3D printing are superfluous. What are they contributing?
- valine 4y agoPresumably running the lathe/printer, drawing schematics and providing step by step directions unique to the materials you can afford.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoAre the tools lathe and 3D printer will produce hand tools or computerised automatic tools, that the AI will run?
- valine 4y agoI’m imagining the AI makes tools it can use by itself. My entire premise depends on you having enough money to fund some AI tinkering, a few Arduinos and servos seems like fair game.
- layer8 4y agoIt could turn into a Microsoft Office situation where the integrations couple so strongly that it’s very difficult to compete.
- inawarminister 4y agofwiw I've been experimenting with 75% Pygmalion 25% ppo_hh mixed GPT-J models and it seems to be 80% as useful as chatGPT... With the exception of coding. Hope we can get there.