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  1. AlexB23

    Testing out RAG (retrieval augmentation generation) for Artificial Intelligence

    Hello folks. Sometime tomorrow, I will be testing out a local AI on my computer that can retrieve information from documents on my laptop. Retrieval Augmentation Generation (RAG) is where an AI can use documents as a source for output. After plugging in the Holy Bible, a Catholic Catechism and...
  2. AlexB23

    Meta’s Open Source Llama 3 Is Already Nipping at OpenAI’s Heels

    Hello folks. Open source technology is slowly catching up to ChatGPT. For myself, I run a free, open-weights AI model on my laptop, and have since March 22, 2024. AI can be used for good, or for bad, just as nuclear fission energy could be used to power a city with clean electricity, or sadly...
  3. AlexB23

    Artificial Intelligence Writes a Law for a fictional setting

    Hello folks. AI has been making the rounds lately over the past year or so (NPR article from 2023), and it has come to my attention that AI could in theory be used to write laws. So, I tested that out, with the locally installed open source AI (Mistral 7B) on my computer writing a basic law for...
  4. AlexB23

    Local, private AI that runs on your computer

    Hello folks. The year is 2024, and AI continues to grasp headlines in the news. Most AI models such as ChatGPT are run on servers, hundreds of miles away from the users. This means that data is not private, and AI could potentially be used to build a profile of you. There is a solution, known as...