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Open source AI makes modern PCs relevant, and subscriptions seem shabby
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Posted on 05/12/2023 5:33:14 AM PDT by FarCenter

This time last year the latest trend in computing became impossible to ignore: huge slabs of silicon with hundreds of billions of transistors – the inevitable consequence of another set of workarounds that kept Moore's Law from oblivion.

But slumping PC sales suggest we don't need these monster computers – and not just because of a sales shadow cast by COVID.

In the first half of 2022, corporate computing looked pretty much the same as it had for the last decade: basic office apps, team communication apps, and, for the creative class, a few rich media tools. Sure, gamers would always find a way to put those transistors to work, but the vast majority of hardware was already overpowered and underworked. Why waste transistors on solved problems?

Then the world changed. A year ago, OpenAI launched DALL-E, the first of the widely available generative AI tools – a "diffuser" that converts noise, a text prompt, and a massive database of weightings into images. It seemed almost like magic. Not long after, Midjourney offered much the same – though tuned to a decidedly '70s Prog Rock album cover aesthetic. It seemed as though demand for cloud computing would skyrocket as these tools found their way into products from Microsoft, Canva, Adobe and others.

Then the world changed again. In August, Stability AI introduced an open source database of diffuser weightings. At its start, Stable Diffusion demanded a state-of-the-art GPU, but the open source community soon found it could optimize the diffuser to run on, well, pretty much anything. It wouldn't necessarily be fast, but it would work – and it would scale up with your hardware.

Instead of demanding massive cloud resources, these newer AI tools run locally. And if you purchased a monster computer they'd run at least as speedily as anything on offer from OpenAI or Midjourney – without a subscription.

The ever-excitable open source community driving Stable Diffusion created an impressive series of new diffuser weightings, each targeting a specific aesthetic. Stable Diffusion isn't merely as fast as anything offered by a commercial AI firm – it's both more useful and more extensible.


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Building and training AI models is compute and data intensive.

Using the AI models is very much less so.

1 posted on 05/12/2023 5:33:14 AM PDT by FarCenter
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To: FarCenter

AI called Artificial Intelligence is an illusion, it is not REAL.

It is aimed by some really evil people with horrible intent to make a lie into something that is the truth.

Distortion of Reality that is hard to tell from the real thing through electronic media.


2 posted on 05/12/2023 5:55:15 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born but a State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: FarCenter

How will we ever figure out who to round up!

We can’t put all the pro-Trump people in concentration camps.


3 posted on 05/12/2023 6:21:33 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: FarCenter

We just don’t have enough people to wade through all these social network comments.

There’s about a billion sentences a day created that need to be examined.


4 posted on 05/12/2023 6:25:52 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Texas Fossil

Absolutely a massive amount of spin around AI.

IMO a psyop also in referring to them as “AIs” or “artificial intelligences” in the singular and plural, as if they are individual entities.


5 posted on 05/12/2023 6:30:14 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Texas Fossil

Look at the artwork created (and read the restrictions):

https://openai.com/product/dall-e-2


6 posted on 05/12/2023 6:35:28 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: FarCenter

“The underlying dataset for Stable Diffusion was...a general crawl of the internet created by the German charity LAION.”

“The area of AI-generated images and copyright is complex”

https://stablediffusionweb.com/


7 posted on 05/12/2023 6:39:26 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: 9YearLurker

“Absolutely a massive amount of spin around AI.”

The more spin applied, the more lucrative the IPOs.


8 posted on 05/12/2023 6:41:01 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: FarCenter

Computer generated art might put the “starving” into “starving artist”.


9 posted on 05/12/2023 6:43:50 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

That, plus the more they get away with the federal guv centralizing control of it and blaming it for the surveillance and brutal control of the population.


10 posted on 05/12/2023 6:51:15 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: ShadowAce; dayglored

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11 posted on 05/12/2023 7:01:23 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=40%>)
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To: FarCenter; rdb3; JosephW; martin_fierro; Still Thinking; zeugma; Vinnie; ironman; Egon; raybbr; ...

12 posted on 05/12/2023 7:58:10 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: Brian Griffin

from your link:

https://openai.com/product/dall-e-2

A focus on safety
DALL·E 2 began as a research project and is now available in beta. Safety mitigations we have developed and continue to improve upon include:
Preventing harmful generations
We’ve limited the ability for DALL·E 2 to generate violent, hate, or adult images. By removing the most explicit content from the training data, we minimized DALL·E 2’s exposure to these concepts. We also used advanced techniques to prevent photorealistic generations of real individuals’ faces, including those of public figures.
Read about improving safety

Curbing misuse
Our content policy does not allow users to generate violent, adult, or political content, among other categories. We won’t generate images if our filters identify text prompts and image uploads that may violate our policies. We also have automated and human monitoring systems to guard against misuse.
Read content policy

Phased deployment based on learning
Learning from real-world use is an important part of developing and deploying AI responsibly. We began by previewing DALL·E 2 to a limited number of trusted users. As we learned more about the technology’s capabilities and limitations, and gained confidence in our safety systems, we slowly added more users and made DALL·E available in beta in July 2022.
View risks and limitations

Our hope is that DALL·E 2 will empower people to express themselves creatively. DALL·E 2 also helps us understand how advanced AI systems see and understand our world, which is critical to our mission of creating AI that benefits humanity.


13 posted on 05/12/2023 8:50:45 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born but a State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Texas Fossil

Agree but I’m not so much apposed to artificial intelligence because not much human intelligence around now days maybe it will wise some of them up?.


14 posted on 05/12/2023 9:04:03 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: bitt

It’s all lies, everything on the Internet is, or will soon become, lies. The truth will be mixed in with it, but indistinguishable. The signal to noise ratio is already terrible, it will become unusable in another year or two.

Sic transit the Internet.


15 posted on 05/12/2023 9:44:14 AM PDT by dayglored (Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
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To: Vaduz

Restore human intelligence?

Turn of TV.

Stop reading the remaining newspapers.

Be very selective on web content.

Go outside and do something attached to the real world and real human beings.

That won’t make the world better, but it might help your local community and neighbors. And you may sleep better. I’m not yet sleeping with a gun under my pillow. I knew some X-military in college who did. 1911 under pillow.

I do have a beautiful 5-1/2” 357 mag, in case it gets that bad.


16 posted on 05/12/2023 10:52:11 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born but a State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: FarCenter

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17 posted on 05/12/2023 2:29:24 PM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Texas Fossil

Turn of TV
That started the problem people trust what the hear not see.

I do have a beautiful 5-1/2” 357 mag, in case it gets that bad.
I wouldn’t let to many know about that you may need it.


18 posted on 05/12/2023 3:29:01 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Vaduz

Yes. I know.

I have a lot of faith in my neighbors. There are some local thieves that know.

Almost everyone here is prepared.

But not prepared for a full scale invasion like now.

This is the build up for the ComDem Party elections.

The imported lefties will all vote ComDem.


19 posted on 05/12/2023 5:37:47 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born but a State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Texas Fossil

The imported lefties will all vote ComDem.

Indeed keep the bunker concealed.


20 posted on 05/13/2023 7:33:23 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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