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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago

The "1 trillion" never existed in the first place. It was all hype by a bunch of Tech-Bros, huffing each other's farts.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 day ago

Almost like yet again the tech industry is run by lemming CEOs chasing the latest moss to eat.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago (5 children)

The best part is that it's open source and available for download

[–] CeeBee_Eh 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I asked it about Tiananmen Square, it told me it can't answer that because it can only respond with "harmless" responses.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yes the online model has those filters. Some one tried it with one of the downloaded models and it answers just fine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

You misspelled "lies". Or were you trying to type "psyops tool"??

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

When running locally, it works just fine without filters

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I tried the smaller models and it's not fine. It's hard coded.

[–] CeeBee_Eh 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

This was a local instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Does the same thing on my local instance.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (8 children)

So can I have a private version of it that doesn't tell everyone about me and my questions?

[–] SpaceRanger 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Thank you very much. I did ask chatGPT was technical questions about some... subjects... but having something that is private AND can give me all the information I want/need is a godsend.

Goodbye, chatGPT! I barely used you, but that is a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, but you have to run a different model if you want accurate info about China.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but China isn't my main concern right now. I got plenty of questions to ask and knowledge to seek and I would rather not be broadcasting that stuff to a bunch of busybody jackasses.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 15 hours ago

I agree. I don’t know enough about all the different models, but surely there’s a model that’s not going to tell you “<whoever’s> government is so awesome” when asking about rainfall or some shit.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Yes but your server can't handle the biggest LLM.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago (10 children)

This just shows how speculative the whole AI obsession has been. Wildly unstable and subject to huge shifts since its value isn't based on anything solid.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The economy rests on a fucking chatbot. This future sucks.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

On the brightside, the clear fragility and lack of direct connection to real productive forces shows the instability of the present system.

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[–] PlutoniumAcid 20 points 1 day ago (7 children)

So if the Chinese version is so efficient, and is open source, then couldn't openAI and anthropic run the same on their huge hardware and get enormous capacity out of it?

[–] AdrianTheFrog 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

OpenAI could use less hardware to get similar performance if they used the Chinese version, but they already have enough hardware to run their model.

Theoretically the best move for them would be to train their own, larger model using the same technique (as to still fully utilize their hardware) but this is easier said than done.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No surprise. American companies are chasing fantasies of general intelligence rather than optimizing for today's reality.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That, and they are just brute forcing the problem. Neural nets have been around for ever but it's only been the last 5 or so years they could do anything. There's been little to no real breakthrough innovation as they just keep throwing more processing power at it with more inputs, more layers, more nodes, more links, more CUDA.

And their chasing a general AI is just the short sighted nature of them wanting to replace workers with something they don't have to pay and won't argue about it's rights.

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[–] Doomsider 78 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Wow, China just fucked up the Techbros more than the Democratic or Republican party ever has or ever will. Well played.

[–] Valmond 1 points 21 hours ago

Didn't donald add like $500B for AI? Seems it'salmost enough to pay the -$600B nVidia lost...

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nvidia’s most advanced chips, H100s, have been banned from export to China since September 2022 by US sanctions. Nvidia then developed the less powerful H800 chips for the Chinese market, although they were also banned from export to China last October.

I love how in the US they talk about meritocracy, competition being good, blablabla... but they rig the game from the beginning. And even so, people find a way to be better. Fascinating.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

You're watching an empire in decline. It's words stopped matching its actions decades ago.

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[–] MooseTheDog 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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