This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Did anybody click the link to read the paragraph-long website text? Not only is it packed with assumptions about AI, it's simply unhinged.
The ability to... run intelligence systems without asking permission is of existential importance.
Existential?! No it's not.
This mirrors the delusion Sam Altman demonstrated when he insisted nobody could raise a child without AI.
It is now. If you want it not to be, go ahead and stop all this modern bullshit happening around me.
You can't yell at people on the ocean that they don't really need boats, and then attack boats. I mean you can, but it's foolish and unproductive.
AI is not saving you from anything existential.
If you believe you're drowning without its salvation, you're the foolish one.
I think giving language a fixed agency in human society 4,000 years ago by permanently structuring it, binding it to physicality, and giving it violent control over people was a bad idea. But gurl, unless you are going back to pre written language, all this living in the modern world and yelling about "certain parts" of technology, is one of the most ignorant stances a thinking being can take.
Unless you are taking us back back, you are a posturing, uneducated, little baby who has drank so much of the Kool aid she can't see the forest she is in at all.
unless you are going back to pre written language, all this living in the modern world and yelling about "certain parts" of technology, is one of the most ignorant stances a thinking being can take.
Ahh I get it, thank you. The machine is hurting you specifically now and so you're lashing out.
"The other stuff, that was cool, but daddy said we were good and everything was chill while we watched the degenerates and the environment burn! but that was a lie! We're not chill! And now Daddy wants my flower too!"
They're going to do to your AC what they did to the buffalo🤣
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I just wish we could invest the time/money/resources into compressing AI and making it smaller and more efficient. I'd so much rather have a somewhat capable AI that can be run locally and offline, to outsource menial tasks to like alphabetizing spreadsheets and so basic image modification, than to have to upgrade my hardware constantly or use cloud based SaaS and/or have newer models that are more accurate in their predictions.
Of course that assumes a lot of things, like the intent to help people and not make money. Maybe someone in the Linux-sphere will make something.
There are efforts there. The new Deepseek 4 compresses a lot of its knowledge using something they call engrams. But it's unfortunately still too big for a consumer GPU.
Gemma 4 is small enough to run on your cellphone.
If your GPU has at least 8GB there are a lot of options for self hosting your own local models
Ollama.com
Install it and then "ollama run olmo-3:7b" gets you a local AI. If you want to run a smarter AI, then you're going to need a bigger parameter model, which is going to take more hardware to run.
Not many people can afford to run their own models.
Not the big ones, no. But I think almost everybody can run one with seven billion parameters.
Considering that the vast majority of PCs in the world have 8GB of RAM at most, I still doubt it.
I ran it on my 8GB RAM desktop.
I mean if that’s all that would be loaded in memory, sure.
I got Qwen 3.5:9b running on my 8GB GPU the other day, and it still has some room left over
I was talking about combined system RAM. People often overestimate what the average system specs are.
If the model dumps over to system ram it gets super slow, you ideally want it to fit completely in your VRAM
we don't need opensource AI, we need to destroy AI
You can run AI without causing environmental problems just like you can drive cars without burning fossil fuels and you can have industrial production without creating pollutants.
All of that just cuts into the profits though.
the way the technology is run and built is in itself despicable. It is an abomination.
So is modern food production. Doesn't mean stop eating.
This is a creepy statement. Human life is not equatable to a billionaire's toy, and it is dangerously immoral to suggest it is.
It's like people are starting to realize what the "luddites" were saying from the beginning.
This tech is not from the people to the people like the web, it's from big corpos to fuck you.
You won't have that tech, you will rent a highly modified one at best, built with the purpose to manipulate you.
Remember: there is a club out there, and you are not part of it.
Yeah, that's what I really don't get.
Why would any serious company think it's a great idea to outsource all your intelligence work to a handfull of US companies, making yourself wholely dependant on their goodwill and the goodwill of the US government?
It's the same delusion and corruption from a neoliberal corporate-whore political class that led to every country growing dependent on US tech companies, and Chinese manufacturing. They represent corporations; not their constituents.
If they'd all committed to open source and domestic companies for support and infra, the compounding effect of tens of thousands of engineers across governments working on linux and other FLOSS products would have made everything significantly cheaper and more efficient for all of them in a matter of years, compared to paying a foreign tech company for everything in perpetuity... and that's before you consider the multitude of other risks and vulnerabilities to national security.
As a good example look at the national police in france. They ditched windows for a custom linux distro and are now saving like 10 million or more euros a year. That's money that used to come from taxpayers to a foreign company and now that money can stay local and help improve the taxpayers lives instead of buying someone a 3rd yacht.
I wish all these European Linux projects would pool resources and create one good solution instead of each little country or even city DIYing their own solution.
Germany alone pays €200mio per year to Microsoft. Imagine what would happen if this money would go to FOSS development instead? And imagine what would happen if all EU countries would follow suit?
And now the really crazy part: what if they all didn't do their own little thing but instead pooled resources? That would overtake Microsoft within months.
