Stuart LaForge wrote this for my Extropolis list, I thought people over here might be interested: ==========
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 3:40 AM Stuart LaForge <av...@sollegro.com> wrote: I cannot keep track of all the dominoes that will fall because of what > Mark Zuckerberg did today. If AI is the New World that we are exploring, > then Mark Zuckerberg just burned our ships like Hernan Cortez. His > company Meta has developed and trained Llama 3.1 which one of the best > performing LLMs in the entire market and today he just made it open > source. In less than two hours I had the 8 billion parameter version of > Llama 3.1 up and running on my Windows 11 laptop. Eliezer Yudkowsky is > probably shitting his pants right now because the genie is all the way > out of the bottle. But I am more optimistic than I have been since Open > AI was actually open source. Some greedy men tried to monopolize AI for > their own power, but Zuckerberg just gave it to the people. In my > estimation, he has made it possible for freedom and democracy into the > Singularity and beyond. > > If you want run your own local copy of Llama 3.1 (~ 5 GB of hard drive) > you can either download it from the meta.com site and compile it which > is a pain. Or if you have have Windows and want a smooth and easy > automatic install go to ollama.com and install Ollama (which helps you > install many different AI models) and follow the instructions. > > Stuart LaForge -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0e4VFNv0YBJOEba0PBkmKM5S2sZFOj0Bm7-oSj28QMig%40mail.gmail.com.
