Free Open-Source Artificial Intelligence

Because they are extremely useful.

They speed up bottlenecks in many areas. It's like having an assistant with a broad, although superficial, knowledge. Which is fine. I can manage myself and oversee senior employees, judging chatgpt output is pretty trivial.

Future are agents. That's what is really missing at this point. Something that can take over more complex tasks with less supervision.

The challenge for AGI is social, that's the biggest challenge. AI will take over a lot of work, but we need better wealth distribution

Right now an LLM is basically a two year old that knows every language in the world and has the entire knowledge of humanity squeezed in its little head.

They're also fun to work with. Error messages are boring when you can instead try to figure out where an LLM got the idea to say what it did.

1. I fucking hate googling. The internet has completely degenerated into a useless mess of SEO leeches. LLMs save so much time. Even if they are often wrong they are still 10x better than Google.
2. Imagine how insane they will make future video games.
3. I have a lot of unordered notes and the only feasable way to organize them at this point are LLMs.
4. I've always been bad at grammar, spelling, punctuation, phrasing etc because of dyslexia/AuDHD, so they make professional writing much easier.
5. Imagine how much time it would save to not have to read through manuals, Q&A sections etc and you can literally just ask the documentation.
6. They are extremely good at recommending things like movies to watch or listing different options. It's like having literally every expert in every field available at your finger tips at all times.
7. They will be amazing at preserving our privacy/anonymity online by rewriting our texts to make them unidentifyable.
8. They might allow us to communicate with animals more effectively. E.g. that one project to decypher whale language.
9. Dying languages could be preserved for eternity.
10. Lots of previously unused/unordered knowledge can be integrated into zeitgeist. Like indigenous knowledge.
11. I would love to see LLMs trained ona giant conspiracy theory or esoteric corpus. Would be cool to talk to those lol.

They're super useful.

I use them at work a lot as a programmer.

They are incredibly good at boring repetitive refactoring, creating classes based on a SQL table etc.

If you post in an article they can summarize it or extract specific information really well.

People often complain they don't get facts right but that's not what they're for.

LLMs are the patient, understanding teachers that adapt to your level that everyone wanted to have. They never get frustrated to why you didn't understand something or that it's taking to much time.

LLMs can summerise a long article, a youtube video without losing information.

LLMs* albeit still not good enough for usage with everything are able to describe an image pretty much accurately and it's really great for people who can't see. ( the state of the art is Llava if you want to test it out )

*The LLM is used along a visual decoder to describe the world but it's been shown that the better the llm the better the vision assistant is able to describe the world.

I have this idea of using an llm to make legalese ( legal writing ) easier to understand and finally allow people to know their rights. Imagine asking an llm : I am a handicaped worker, what's my rights ? And it give you a list.

I have high hopes for AGI. Either it wipes us ( Great ! ) or it make our lives better ( great too !)

I researched creative AI and how AI can help people be creative, people thought it was a ridiculous and pointless topic. I'm biased.

Firstly, I think it's important to see the non-chat applications. Goblin Tools is a great example of code we just couldn't have written before. Purely from an NLP perspective, these tools are outstanding, if imperfect.

I'm excited to see new paradigms of applications come up when talented new developers are able to locally run LLMs and integrate them into their everyday programming, and too see what they can cook up in a world where that's normal.

I'm interested in LLMs not to generate data on the fly, but to pre-generate and validate massive amounts of content or data than we'd otherwise be able to for things like games.

From a chat perspective, I like that it can support fleshing out ideas, parsing lots of data in a usable way.

And finally I'm excited for how lightweight LLMs could affect user interface design. I could imagine a future where OSs have swappable LLMs like they have shells that can allow for natural language interfacing with programs.

I don't know, it's just really accessible NLP, and that's great.

So I can finally create my own waifu irl.

Search engines have become almost completely useless and AI can give me the answers I need immediately without having to wade through 17 piece of shit websites looking for a relevant answer. AI is a companion I never want to be without now. I hope that open source AI beats out all of the corporations and we end up with self-hosted private super AI that benefits all of us. AI already teaches me how to program what I want easily and effectively. Uncensored models are fun too for creative writing and naughty output. I use Spicyboros model with CPU only on my personal PC for queries that I want to keep private and ChatGPT everything else. The spicyboros-70b-2.2.Q5_K_M.gguf is very slow on CPU only and uses 50 GB of RAM but it is fun all the same. I made a script to generate text to speech once my query has processed using Coqui TTS

I do roleplay with them. Program my own chatbot/waifu, just chat or download one of the character cards for SillyTavern. Sometimes use them to bounce ideas for creative things or let them assist me in writing a story. So I mainly tinker around.

I don't use LLMs for anything "useful". I can code myself. Okay, sometimes I give them small tasks. Re-word things, give them a draft and let them put it into more vivid and proper words, draft an email for me or translate something. Just a little thing here and there.

I hope they're getting more useful. Once we solved alignment to a degree, and got hallucinations under control, I believe they can take a lot of tedious tasks off our shoulders. I for example hate paperwork. And organizing things. I'd like some AI to do it for me.

I believe they're first getting useful in combination with a human and assist. You give it some input and let it do the writing, or fill out an excel sheet. Or have it as your pair programming partner. Or answer questions. Or draft something. And we have some kind of a labor shortage anyways. I believe this can be used to make things more efficient.

I don't see it as a threat to human labor, but as a way to get more things done in a work-day and make things easier (if done right). As long as you bring something to the table, human brains are still (more) useful for quite some time. So I believe well qualified people don't need to worry too much.

Once we get close to AGI I hope this will revolutionize economy in a good way. Make everything easier and more efficient so we can concentrate more on the interesting stuff the world has to offer. I still have my doubts, since there are a few technical problems in the way, we need better legislation, also with the way society and capitalism works, I doubt we're getting there without major hiccups. And I hope we're getting to be a part of it. AI is currently dominated by large corporations like >$100 million to the size of Meta. We need this to benefit the people and be democratic. Not go into the direction that benefits the large corporations the most. But I'm still very optimistic. We have governments to control corporations and provide at least somewhat of an level playing field. They need to step up their game, but I think this is doable.