[ExI] ChatGPT 'Not Interesting' for creative works

[Gadersd]

Computing technology is not advanced enough for consumer computers to run the powerful models. Consumer computers do not have the bandwidth and GPU FLOPS to run the good models. It isn’t a matter of speed, consumer computers just cannot run the big models. The best you could do is run a toy model with maybe a billion parameters. Such toy models are completely dumb compared to ChatGPT and can barely string coherent sentences together.

> On Mar 5, 2023, at 9:26 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> ... On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat
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> Ecclesiastes 12:12
> And further, my son, be admonished by these. Of making many books there is
> no end, and much study is wearisome to the flesh.
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>> ...And now we have the Internet, self-publishing, Kindle and ChatGPT.
> We have so much to read it is indeed wearisome to the flesh.
> I don't think Stephenson is talking just about his personal preferences. If
> computers can now produce ream after ream of plausible words strung
> together, what is the point of spending human time reading this endless
> stream? If there is no human personality behind it, then let another machine
> read it.
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> BillK
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> Ja!  This thread has long been heading in this direction BillK: we need
> versions of ChatGPT that can be personally owned and operated.  I am told it
> requires tons of bandwidth and computing speed, but I don't understand why
> one couldn't have a micro-ChatGPT that operates on my one processor and uses
> my modest home bandwidth, going out researching in its background computing
> cycles and searching around mostly as I sleep.  I don't understand why it
> wouldn't gradually get smarter and become a better companion, if it can be
> trained by me.  It hasta be able to learn and remember what I told it.
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> I still want to try that experiment where you train a micro-ChatGPT, I train
> one, then we have the two debate away in the night.  Then we see what they
> said.  That should be a hoot.
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> If anyone here knows exactly why ChatGPT can't be scaled down by six orders
> of magnitude and sold to consumers, do educate me please.  Seems to me like
> whatever magic that banks of a thousand computers can do can be done at a
> thousandth that pace with one.  Ja?  Why not?  I want to try it.
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> Thanks for the cool Ecclesiastes quote, me lad!
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> spike  
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