…making people study on potential AI slop which will compound over the years and that will result in a degradation of the humans’ knowledge on the topic
Someone really needs to stop your friend before they destroy the sum total of human knowledge with their beer hustle.
They’re paying for Google too, but they’re using the credit card of their students’ privacy.
It might turn out we were better off without electricity, but we’ll never know because we have electricity.
I get to use it 5% of the time (e: for $20/mo)
I can’t believe that selling services that nobody needs at prices nobody can afford while also taking a loss on selling said service isn’t a successful business model.
Oh no, my life savings (2 sticks of DDR5) will decrease in value.
It’s the process of making art that’s what’s important and fulfilling, not the end product.
Unless, of course, I don’t approve of your process in which case you’re a talentless hack.
Pretty much sums up the argument.
And, importantly, it’s not a decision that’s compelled by some sort of hierarchical power structure. Responsible disclosure rules exist to protect everyone who uses the software. Like FOSS it’s a system that benefits everyone which makes it worth participating in voluntarily.
Capitalism sometimes gives a cash prize as well, because of course they do.
It’s modern journalism, only the headline really matters… only a small percentage of people are going to read the article anyway.
It says AI right in the title, that’s going to bring all the attention and interaction on social media.
At the top end, they’re probably not subsidized… but if you’re getting by on a $100 phone, it’s likely a $100 piece of spyware that sold your data to pay for 2/3rds of your phone.
This is true, self hosting doesn’t save you money. It is, in fact, more expensive and costs your time.
This is because modern technology isn’t sold to you as a product, it’s sold to you as a loss leader so that you use their products and let them spy on you so that they can sell that data to advertisers or anybody who can complete an ACH transfer.
Your options are
Use commercial services and sell your privacy in exchange for cheap consumer electronics which will be obsolete next year either by design or through engineered hardware failure.
Setup the services on your own devices and pay the cost in hardware and free time.
In one scenario you spend a bit more money, in the other scenario you don’t have privacy. Everyone gets to choose which is more important.
I’m sure OPs RTX 3060 will have a tolerable effect on the school children and the rainforest.
It depends on how complex you want to make it.
The simplest way would be to use a GUI tool like LM Studio, it has the benefit of selecting the model quants that are likely to work on your hardware and having sane defaults for the various parameters that you can work from.
Typically you’ll want to increase the context window, the default is good for short one-off questions but if you’re going to do RAG or coding tasks you will need a much larger context window. You will typically find this through trial and error, increasing until you hit memory limits or notice a large slowdown on tokens/second.
You can also have the model respond to an OpenAI-like API interface on a designated port/interface if you want to run non-chat tools through the same model.
Then, depending on the task that you’re trying to solve, you may want to find an MCP server built for that task which can provide the ability for the AI to interact with tools in a way that’s more controlled (giving an AI raw terminal access on a user’s machine is typically a bad idea).
If you need something more flexible that you can incorporate into scripts and automation, llama.cpp has been popular for a while. Like Linux distros, everyone is going to have an opinion on the best and whatever you decide on will be the wrong choice. There’s also Ollama and vLLM if you want to run a datacenter.
Model-wise it completely depends on the task. Do you need a multi-modal model that supports vision, is it going to be coding, is it trained to use tools/MCP servers, does it use reasoning, etc. The Qwen models are open weight and available in many different quants. The version 3.5 models run well on consumer hardware and can use vision, reasoning and tools.
I’m running it through Llama.cpp but it will likely be available via LM Studio as well.
Do vulnerabilities in voting software typically get disclosed to the public? Is there a CVE list somewhere that I can browse?
They’re gonna IPO, get a shortcut into the Indexs so that Index Funds have to spend money (your retirement money) buying tons of stock at the near-IPO price, turning fake future profits into actual real US Dollars that the company can use to cash out executives and owners before the company explodes taking the economy with it. Elon already did this with SpaceX minus the economy exploding (so far).
I would not be invested in an index tracking asset which will include the tech or hardware companies involved in the AI supply chain.
The beatings cyberattacks will continue until morale security improves
Think of Louisiana before Katrina. Those systems of pumps and dykes are expensive and had been neglected… which was fine right up until they were severely tested by Katrina.
Our orange city counselman stopped funding repairs and inspections on the dykes and pumps many years ago (when he destroyed CISA). They’ve been deteriorating from neglect ever since.
A large hurricane is going to hit at 14:00 UTC
(In 10 minutes)
It’ll almost certainly be handled quietly and nobody will know but system admins, but this could be a bigger thing than usual.
0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
We’re YOUR emergency services
It was :)
Basically this tone of voice:
Lazy people who want to avoid studying in college have been being taken advantage of since the beginning of academia. Adding AI doesn’t change anything, humanity’s knowledge has survived lazy students and fake notes it can survive fabricated notes.