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 <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0e4VFNv0YBJOEba0PBkmKM5S2sZFOj0Bm7-oSj28QMig%40mail.gmail.com.
