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I remember doing this about ten years ago, taking up almost the entirety of my phone’s storage in the process, and feeling unreasonably delighted by it. I’m not
by xanderlewis 3y ago
I remember doing this about ten years ago, taking up almost the entirety of my phone’s storage in the process, and feeling unreasonably delighted by it. I’m not sure why, but this idea really appeals to me. It’s all very good having access to information on some server somewhere, but literally having (a very useful amount of) information on almost every topic humans have so far contemplated available literally in your pocket is somehow incredibly thrilling. For the same reason I’m fascinated by the idea of locally-hosted LLMs. It’s hard to explain. Maybe it’s like some sort of digital version of hoarding behaviour.
- flashback2199 3y ago> Maybe it’s like some sort of digital version of hoarding behaviour Digital hoarding is a real thing reddit.com/r/DataHoarder
- cm2187 3y agoI would bet those who grew up with 56k modems are more affected!
- mikestew 3y ago56K, such luxury. I know what digital scarcity is, and a 1Gbps fiber line to my house isn’t it. Sure, I have my secret stash over in the corner of that NAS in the garage, just in case. But I otherwise can now download what I want in seconds, minutes at worst. Ergo, I don’t hoard nearly like I used to (never was a true hoarder in the first place, so I can probably be ignored). Not to say that your point isn’t well taken. One does tend to keep stuff after a long overnight download, and old habits die hard. And I do have a local copy of Wikipedia…just in case.
- Damogran6 3y agoI had the same feeling I imagine...when I paid $2.00 to download the entirety of the Laserdisk game Dragon's Lair onto my iPhone (3gs? 4s?) The thought that I used to spend $.50 a game and now I can hold it in my hand for 4 times that.
- johnsillings 3y agoHitchhiker's Guide vibes
- babypuncher 3y agoAn early (pre-App Store) homebrew iOS app I used that did this on my iPod Touch was called "Don't Panic".
- btbuildem 3y agoLocal LLM with the entirety of Wikipedia accessible via RAG (or better, newer technique) is legitimately a little super-powered assistant. It works when the grid goes down, and the searchability is orders of magnitude better - especially when you're not sure what you're looking for.
- aceazzameen 3y agoAre local LLMs available on phones yet?
- CGamesPlay 3y agoThis model came out a few days ago and runs on an iPhone. https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Obsidian-3B-V0.5 https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Obsidian-3B-V0.5
- simonw 3y agoFrom their README: <|im_start|>user What is this sign about?\n<image> ### <|im_start|>assistant The sign is about bullying, and it is placed on a black background with a red background. ### Any idea how you fill out that <image> bit?
- CGamesPlay 3y agoNo, but the GitHub repo linked from there includes a Gradio Demo UI which has an image field, so it should be possible to reverse engineer.
- simonw 3y agoMLC have demos that work on iOS and Android: - https://llm.mlc.ai/#ios https://llm.mlc.ai/#ios - https://llm.mlc.ai/#android https://llm.mlc.ai/#android
- golergka 3y agoWhat better technique are you referring to?