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Chat with local AI models

I’m not a huge fan of AI, but I do use it occasionally. I found a tool on Flathub that I’ve been trying out, so I thought i would share it if any for you need something like it. The interface is also pretty nice if you use Gnome(it don’t look so nice KDE). Its unstable on my arch install

    • @[email protected]
      29•2 days ago

      local AI models are a thing you know, just run this on a computer with no internet access and you’ll swiftly see whether it relies on servers or not.

    • @atzanteolEnglish
      29•2 days ago

      I think something is lying to you.

    • Match!!English
      13•2 days ago

      so like, turn your network connection off and try it

        • @[email protected]
          3•23 hours ago

          To be fair, the first time I tried running local AI (and it actually worked), I was so surprised that I actually unplugged my Ethernet and tried again. I’m still surprised, but it’s possible for the massive amounts of training data to be compressed to a model under only 10 or 20 GB.

        • @priapusEnglish
          15•2 days ago

          You overestimate the hardware required to run AI.

          • EverettEnglish
            3•2 days ago

            I can run Llama3 on my desktop with a 3060, answers are near instant.

        • Match!!English
          13•2 days ago

          model training is often exorbitantly high-energy and storage, but the model output is not: GPT3 cost $7 million dollars just in electricity costs to train, but the model is “only” 500 GB, and can be run locally on just CPU processing

        • @[email protected]English
          6•2 days ago

          You can run a basic model on pretty mid-range hardware, the smaller ones are only 1-2GB in size.