[ExI] Zuckerberg is democratizing the singularity

[Stuart LaForge]

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