12-20-2023, 01:59 PM | #1 |
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So, Kovid, when are we getting CalibreAI?
Just kidding, but think of the possibilities.
Grammar, spelling, proper HTML, customization, translation.... It boggles the mind. |
12-20-2023, 04:19 PM | #2 |
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It's a lie.
Don't look at the 10,000,000 scraped websites and the team behind the curtain and the environmental cost of the massive data centre. Only NFTs and "crypto-currencies" and blockchain (a solution still looking for a problem) are worse. There is no AI. Just huge databases and matching engines. |
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12-21-2023, 02:16 PM | #3 |
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Oh god no
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12-21-2023, 05:01 PM | #4 |
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Given the issues with inaccuracy in the answers from AI, you really want calibre to make use of it? A glutton for punishment you must be.
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12-21-2023, 07:31 PM | #5 |
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A basic precondition for AI in calibre would be the ability to run AI models on common consumer hardware. I am never going to be uploading user data to some random SV company's servers. Nor am I going to be maintaining my own server cluster for AI compute.
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12-21-2023, 08:06 PM | #6 | |
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Quote:
https://gpt4all.io/index.html |
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12-21-2023, 08:20 PM | #7 |
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Those models are still a long way from the performance/accuracy of actual GPT-4 which is itself a long way from being actually either performant or accurate enough, IMO.
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12-21-2023, 08:46 PM | #8 |
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I can only agree. Performance-wise there's a severe limitation on common hardware, measured as "tokens per second"... I remember some local models were painfully slow to process simple requests. And then there's that other limitation you mentioned on a similar thread "they can only be prompted with very limited amounts of text at the moment."
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12-22-2023, 05:56 AM | #9 |
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Also too easily produces plausible junk due to scraping web sites and almost no human curation.
It's a technological dead end and not the way to improve proofing/correction of grammar or spelling. Translation relies on matching a big database, a giant Rosetta Stone. Google started by scraping all the EU published documents as they are all the the same thing (by expert humans) in all the official languages of the EU. Which still includes English, though the UK left, because that's official in Malta and Ireland. |
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