[ExI] Zuckerberg is democratizing the singularity
Stuart LaForge
avant at sollegro.com
Wed Jul 24 07:40:26 UTC 2024
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
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