On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 2:13 PM Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.org> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 7:31 AM Colin McGregor <colin.mc151@gmail.com> wrote:
Okay, so obvious next question, what fully open alternatives are currently available for Llama 2 and if there are none what can we do to help create such an alternative?
Right now the community involved in advancing "Open AI" is still in the definition phase, trying to determine what that means.
One could do worse than look at the progress made along this path: https://blog.opensource.org/closing-the-2023-rounds-of-deep-dive-ai-with-fir...
One of the primary movers of this effort will be speaking at the February meeting of GTALUG.
At present questions I am asking are "Is AI JUST this year's IT Bonus Buzzword Bingo Word?" and "A year from now, will everyone have forgotten about AI having moved on to <<some other buzzword>>?". I don't know the answers to these questions. What I do know is that Llama 2 seems to be the best option available at present to start poking at those questions and that as soon as a better option (less restrictive licence) becomes available I'll move on. With Llama 2 I can just download the software, install it and go. I don't have to provide a megacorporation any personal information such as a phone #, I don't have to depend on software on the cloud. I can run it on hardware of low enough cost that if something "bad" happens to the hardware I will be saddened, but I will not be heartbroken. Colin.
- Evan