Hamish,

The unphone is awesome! Can it be a platform for open source AI?

I think we have a great analogy here. Bricolabs was started by the promise of open source hardware, fuelled by Adrian Bowyens REPRAP. We ‘produced’ an imaginary that kept a lot of us going in our minds as having - knowing there were similar intelligences around, in itself a great ‘result’. We did not aim for a movement.

And now you are here telling us DIYAI is on us!

To me, this is a similar moment.

Let’s discuss how we can harness this in an imaginary and a product, based on the unphone. And a movement unsingularity :)

Greetings, Rob


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> On 11 Sep 2024, at 11:43, Hamish Cunningham <hamish@???> wrote:
>
> Rob, James, all,
>
> What a fascinating discussion! The comments about phones makes me feel better about spamming you with https://unphone.net/ -- an "unPhone" made in Sheffield, UK :)
>
> I agree with James' point about opportunity, and about the connection between building our own stuff as therapy, as escape, and as a potential pole of attraction to a new world. (This was what the Transition Towns movement was about, I think, and Cory Doctorow's lovely Walkaway.)
>
> One hopeful thing in the context of the new AI is that since Facebook decided it was losing the LLM race with M$ and Google and opened up LLAMA, the open source AI community has begun producing models that perform at similar levels to ChatGPT. Although it is still prohibitively expensive to build the foundation model that these are based on, for end user applications they can run on hardware that's a fraction of the price of the corporate cloud (e.g. a €1.5k GPU can both infer that "I'm hot" means turn the heating down and do a decent job of spouting general knowledge on a multitude of subjects). I think the era of DIY AI is now upon us :)
>
> Looking forward to the zoom call, best,
> Hamish
>
>
> Hamish Cunningham
> Professor of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK
>

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>                     but it seems that in fact I just get odder and wider.

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