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throwback to that brief period where people would mine bitcoin (ineffectively) using ASICs in their USB ports

• crowcroft 1y ago
  Yes, and people buying random GPUs for ether etc. I'm not a huge fan of what crypto has become but there was something exciting about hacking stuff together at home for it which is currently missing in AI IMO. Maybe it's not really missing and the APIs for LLMs are just too good and cheap to make homebrew stuff exciting.
  • bjord 1y ago
    no, I think you're right—there's definitely something missing right now but more likely it's going on and we're just not seeing it in general, though, I think once a certain amount of money is involved, people just start to get rabid and everything becomes a lot less fun
    • lawlessone 1y ago
      Maybe more accessible tools i think? It's possible to run models locally, fidget with temp etc Being able to change other things on the fly like identify weights most used for a prompt and just changing those to see what happens is much harder. I've tried both LLMS and image generators on my machine locally and while it's gotten in easier it's a long task just setting up. Especially if you run into driver issues.