What do you mean? The Chinese are known for government-coordinated megaprojects… They regularly build entire city districts pretty much over night. And it’s not really quick… They’ve been at it since almost 20 years. And I believe in 2016 they released their national 15-year plan to ramp up power plants and AI in order to become the global AI leader by 2030.

We can see how in the times before AI, they were able to build large Bitcoin farms quickly (before they banned it) and by today, their AI industry publishes quite some models, papers… So I don’t really see a reason to question this. Or is there anything I’ve missed?

• https://www.techradar.com/pro/china-has-spent-billions-of-dollars-building-far-too-many-data-centers-for-ai-and-compute-could-it-lead-to-a-huge-market-crash
• https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinas-ai-data-center-boom-goes-bust-rush-leaves-billions-of-dollars-in-idle-infrastructure
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_industry_in_China

I’m not sure if the title is clickbait… Because that’s not in the following text. The article says they want to ban Nvidia from selling more hardware to them. It doesn’t say anything about limiting availability of the service or anything.

If they do, my best guess is they do it like with TikTok. Change their stance on everything several times and then they don’t really enforce anything.

I’ve always backed up my SMS to my E-Mail inbox. With something like SMS Gate or SMS Backup+. I think it’s nice to have all messages in my mail program. Of course that only does one way. To reply and get immediate notifications, I use KDEConnect (or GSConnect which is the same thing for GNOME.)

Wasn’t “error-free” one of the undecidable problems in maths / computer science? But I like how they also pay attention to semantics and didn’t choose a clickbaity title. Maybe I should read the paper, see how they did it and whether it’s more than an AI agent at the same intelligence level guessing whether it’s correct. I mean surprisingly enough, the current AI models usually do a good job generating syntactically correct code one-shot. My issues with AI coding usually start to arise once it gets a bit more complex. Then it often feels like poking at things and copy-pasting various stuff from StackOverflow without really knowing why it doesn’t deal with the real-world data or fails entirely.

https://lemm.ee/post/61408911

I’ve also had that. And I’m not even sure whether I want to hold it against them. For some reason it’s an industry-wide effort to muddy the waters and slap open source on their products. From the largest company who chose to have “Open” in their name but oppose transparency with every fibre of their body, to Meta, the curren pioneer(?) of “open sourcing” LLMs, to the smaller underdogs who pride themselves with publishing their models that way… They’ve all homed in on the term.

And lots of the journalists and bloggers also pick up on it. I personally think, terms should be well-defined. And open-source had a well-defined meaning. I get that it’s complicated with the transformative nature of AI, copyright… But I don’t think reproducibility is a question here at all. Of course we need that, that’s core to something being open. And I don’t even understand why the OSI claims it doesn’t exist… Didn’t we have datasets available until LLaMA1 along with an extensive scientific paper that made people able to reproduce the model? And LLMs aside, we sometimes have that with other kinds of machine learning…

(And by the way, this is an old article, from end of october last year.)

Reportedly, they’ve built a ton of extra AI datacenters they don’t even use. I thought they were just misappropriating government funds, but maybe that was an intelligent strategy. I wonder if that’s enough to bridge the gap until they have their own silicon in mass production.

Wow. Doing some spring-cleaning? I might have one of those on my own small pile of e-waste. Can’t even remember what kind of bandwith the PCI bus had… probably enough to fill 128MB.

Oh, wow. Should be pretty obvious that something isn’t open source, …well… unless the source is open…

Nice. Any additional info on how difficult it was to train this and whether we can expect more? They have a 3B model in the demo video, but doesn’t seem like they released that… I mean I’d like something a bit larger.

Really? Are you sure this isn’t just a restriction for people who download the app from the Apple store, or who live in islamic countries? The TOS they display to me specifically mention illegal pornographic content. But I’ve never used it, so I don’t really know.

See to what IP your domain points, and if that’s really the external IP of your router. Might also help to put in your IP address into the webbrowser instead of the domain, to see if port 80 / 443 really go somewhere. Another possibility, do a portscan from the internet.

Btw, how do you access Wireguard? I mean that’s also somehow able to access your network from outside…

I think Discord is pretty lenient on everything. They’re an US company though. Also Telegram, that’s what all the conspiracy theorists use, I think they don’t moderate a lot. That one is founded by Russians, and registered on the British Virgin islands.

I think they both technically fit your requirements, but I wouldn’t recommend any of them. You can also use traditional internet forums or the Fediverse. They’re all moderated by the people themselves. With varying rules on what you’re allowed to post.

I mean if you just want to discuss politics, society and philosophy, without spreading hate and misinformation… You’d be welcome here, we do those kinds of things on Lemmy.

And if we’re really talking about “open-source” and not just “open-weight”, the additional scientific papers, datasets and tooling are going to help democratize the technology and even out the playing field to a degree.

Some people do it. For example we have this solar-powered website: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

You’d need an energy source like a solar panel, a battery and some computing device. Like a single board computer (Raspberry Pi) you can also run webservers on smartphones, or even a microcontroller. The server part works without an internet connection. But you obviously need some way to connect to it. A wifi (router) or a computer connected via an ethernet cable.

The tech isn’t too complicated. Just install nginx if you have a raspberry pi, open a wifi and put your website on it. If you choose a phone, try Termux and a supported webserver. Both Linux and smartphones are designed to even work without an internet connection ;-)

Not really. I could use some good selfhosted search engine. I mean all the existing projects (which is just YaCy, to my knowledge) are a bit dated. Nowadays we only got metasearch engines and we’re relying on Google, Bing etc.

But I don’t need any chatbot enhancements. That’s usually something I skip when using Google or Bing because it doesn’t work well. The AI summaries tend to be wrong, and it’s bad at looking up niche information, which is something I need a search engine to be able to find. The AI just cites the most common slop, or at best the Wikipedia article. But I don’t really need any fancy software to get there… So for me, we don’t need any AI augmentation.

And I think the old way of googling was fine. Just teach people to put in the words that are likely to be in the article they want to find. That’d be something like “Rust new features 2023” or “homelab backup blog”. Sure you can strap on a chatbot and put in entire natural language questions. But I think that’s completely unnecessary. We have brains and we’re perfectly able to translate our questions into search queries with little effort… If somebody teches us what to type into the search bar, and why.

I have it role-play for my amusement, bounce ideas and regularly ask it to give me 5 ideas about something, if I’m not creative myself. I also use it for translation. Either copy-paste an entire text or help me phrase things.

I’ve also fooled around with image generation, music, tried to program a website, had it rephrase my emails… But all of that wasn’t super useful to me. At lest not for my everyday tasks.

Other AI things I use (occasionally) are: Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text and text recognition.

WhatsApp, I don’t think anyone. It’s pretty much inevitable here in Germany. But I’ve had several friends delete their Facebook and old Twitter accounts during the past months. I don’t really know what Apple users do. I wouldn’t be surprised if they just keep using iMessage and whatever services are part of Apple’s ecosystem. I mean that’s kind of why people buy Apple products in the first place.

Yeah, seeking support is notoriously difficult. Everyone working in IT knows this. I feel with open-source, it’s more the projects which aren’t in a classic Free Software domain, who attract beggars. For example the atmosphere of a Github page of a Linux tool will have a completely different atmosphere than a fancy AI tool or addon to some consumer device or service. I see a lot of spam there and demanding tone. While with a lot of more niche projects, people are patient, ask good questions and in return the devs are nice. And people use the thumbsup emoji instead of pinging everyone with a comment…

I feel, though… I you’re part of an open source project which doesn’t welcome contributions and doesn’t want to discuss arbitrary user needs and wants, you should make that clear. I mean Free Software is kind of the default in some domains. If you don’t want that as a developer, just add a paragraph of text somewhere prominently, detailing how questions and requests are or aren’t welcome. I as a user can’t always tell if discussing my questions is a welcome thing and whether this software is supposed to cater for my needs. Unless the project tells me somehow. That also doesn’t help with the beggars… But it will help people like me not to waste everyone’s time.

I’ve also printed a few thingies for the car and my experience is, PLA deforms on the first hot day and you can throw it out. PETG lasted 2-3 years for me until it became brittle and broke.