[ach9l]

on ai being a niche/hobby at the moment... feels like something a unix greybeard would say about guis in the late 70s...

[vundercind]

Playing with them locally? Yes, of course it's a niche hobby. The people doing stuff with them that's not either playing with them or developing not just an "AI" product, but a specific sort of AI product, are just using ChatGPT or some other prepackaged thing that either doesn't run locally, or does, but is sized to fit on ordinary hardware.

< 1% of all engagement with a category thing is niche/hobby, yes.

[alluro2]

I get that you're probably joking, but - if I use Claude / ChatGPT o1 in my editor and browser, on an M1 Pro - what exactly am I missing by not running e.g. HF models locally? Am I still the greybeard without realising?

[Eugr]

Privacy? Lots of companies do not allow using public chatbots for anything proprietary.

[jart]

It's like asking what you're missing by not using Linux if you're using Windows.

[nonameiguess]

It's something a regular person would say to a Unix greybeard, which in and of itself was always and still is a very niche hobby.

[jart]

Or what a prokaryote would say about eukaryotes.

[alluro2]

Seems like we've reached the "AI bro" phase...