Will 'AIs' be collected as some people collect books or vintage electronics?

[parisivy]

'They have one of the best first wave AI collections'.

'What's the provenance? This AI was first own by X and was later part of Y's collection, one the best institutional collections in Asia'.

Could these be plausible statements in a near future?

How about an AI 'zoo'? Thank you.

[talldayo]

No not really. "AIs" today are entirely digital LLMs that can be copied, shared and redistributed for a marginal fee already. "Collecting" AI would make absolutely no sense, especially since most of the AIs worth collecting cannot be used for commercial/museum-fee purposes. The only such thing that will exist in the future are the people that digitally archive today's model files.

[parisivy]

Music can be copied, shared and redistributed for a marginal fee. Text even more. Nevertheless, you have record and book collectors. What's the difference?

[illuminant]

I collect them using ollama. My favorite go to is nous-hermes2-mixtral, though others have things to say. They're all distinctive (phi3, llama3, wizardly, etc.) and can be a riot with the right prompts.

[h2odragon]

I think it'll be easier to keep specifications of inputs and methods to rebuild models if need be.