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   Mr. Bacon (tony@clew.lol)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 10:54:51 JST Mr. Bacon
   mmmmm, trying to decide if I want to set up a llm on a server in my apartment.
   
   What do you think, do we need clew ai?
   
   I feel like it would be good to train my own ai, but i have no idea what kind of business to make out of it. The only demographic I can think who would actively use it is you people...but then again...do i really want you people generating things...
   
   Also, the computer necessary to run an actual llm is very expensive which is why i'd like to make some kind of money off it or at least try...but again, i have no earthly idea what kind of business people pay for with an ai...so idk, might just put it on here and see what happens.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 10:54:50 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     Can you train it use ncurses? 😏
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 10:59:25 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     I was joking. Everyone is like "AI" is the future. Me writing bash scripts and ncurses programs to automate my life....
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     Mr. Bacon (tony@clew.lol)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 10:59:26 JST Mr. Bacon

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     Yah, I have to choose the level of training involved (tweaking, model changing, or from scratch)
     
     The from scratch option is out because of cost (literally like 20K+) but I was looking at llamda and the specs are within my price range to get it going.
     
     It would come with a preloaded model, so idk if it would be super racist, but you could probably bother it enough to call someone a nigger lol
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:04:59 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     That's the point. I've been working on a script on the shitter (I have an 8" laptop) to automate my invoicing from production (pdf), printing / emailing, posting in the ledger, etc. The processing power required is nothing. Total script may be 200 lines. PDF template(s) are about the same. CPU power required, one core pi zero could do it. Total time to create it is probably less than setting up and training an AI. Maybe four hours. Overhead: $0.
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     Mr. Bacon (tony@clew.lol)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:05:00 JST Mr. Bacon

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     accept no one has actually figured out how to make AI profitable lmao. It's like the massive prossesing power that's effectively useless.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:05:50 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Sweetie_Squad_Liquidator
     Welcome to the fedi, nerd.
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     Sweetie_Squad_Liquidator (sweetie_squad_liquidator@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:05:51 JST Sweetie_Squad_Liquidator

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     @Humpleupagus @Tony
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:07:02 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • DeadDrudge
     It's for my wife really. She does the accounting / admin side. I'm going to get laid. 😏
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     DeadDrudge (jeddrudge@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:07:03 JST DeadDrudge

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     • ?? Humpleupagus ??
     Impressive multitaskingmaxxing...
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:09:41 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     Define "learn." It can pull in data from my time sheets and ledger, calculate hours, fees, late charges, pull and populate addresses, etc. What's there to learn? Most businesses work from static data sets.
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     Mr. Bacon (tony@clew.lol)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:09:42 JST Mr. Bacon

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     but can your script LEARN?
     
     but is it even useful if it learns? lol
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:09:54 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     Tl;dr AI is stupid.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:15:16 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     And don't get me wrong. AI can be cool in certain contexts. I did find some pretty neat art the other day (though most of AI art is shit). But it's all novelty. There's no real practical use, and again, because most businesses just need an accounting software or email that works, etc, but all of the npc options suck. Have you seen quickbook or outlook? Holy fuck. What a nightmare. Yet the same retards who brought npcs that shitware are going to save them with AI.
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     Captain80s (captain80s@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:20:29 JST Captain80s

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     So China bragging about all the AI degrees they are pumping out will be not much more use than a gender studies degree?
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:20:29 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Captain80s
     I could be the guy who said that no one will use a mouse, but I'm just not seeing it. Voice recognition / text to speech tech that isn't piped to google's servers would be cool, but you don't need AI for that. Sound in -> command could be scriptable too.
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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:20:47 JST Matt Hamilton

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     @Humpleupagus @Tony It will eventually have its use in mass data synthesis, but accuracy and reliability will have to make significant improvements first. Today, it's just Artificial Indians: cheaper call centers.

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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:22:12 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     I'm going to switch to hledger in the next month or so. Throwing git on it for versioning should give me some protection as I learn.
     
     https://hledger.org/1.41/hledger.html
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     Mr. Bacon (tony@clew.lol)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:22:13 JST Mr. Bacon

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     • ?? Humpleupagus ??
     I use quickbooks and it's retarded.
     
     Yah, the problem is that people generally don't even understand accounting.
     
     I make all of my own balance sheets and income statements at this point because quick books makes my life harder.
     
     I was just auditing quickbooks yesterday and it randomly didn't notice a bunch of deposits...FOR NO REASON
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     koropokkur (koropokkur@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:23:06 JST koropokkur

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     • ?? Humpleupagus ??
     excel is all you need for book keeping.
     balance sheets, payroll, scheduling, inventory/ordering, daily sales figures, etc... you can do it all.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:24:08 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Matt Hamilton
     But most people don't need mass data synthesis. They need to send an email or put a date in a calendar.
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     Mr. Bacon (tony@clew.lol)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:24:58 JST Mr. Bacon

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     i don't even like using any of the voice to text or whatever options we have now
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:27:04 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Captain80s
     I'd love to for initially drafting letters, etc. Like a dictation service. The problem is that most text to speech isn't local as I understand. Android pipes the speech to remote servers, Samsung's or Google, and sends the resulting text back. Thus, it's all recorded by globohomo Corp.
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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:27:21 JST Matt Hamilton

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     @Humpleupagus @Tony Correct. But the government surveillance state needs mass data synthesis before it can fully transition to a police state.

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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:27:39 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • Matt Hamilton
     This isn't helping the argument for AI. 😏
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     Captain80s (captain80s@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:27:49 JST Captain80s

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     • ?? Humpleupagus ??
     Its gay.
     When I try to say kike it comes out as kee kay.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:29:00 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     • koropokkur
     Have you looked at hledger? It looks interesting tbh. The facts it's text based opens a lot of options, especially with bash.
     
     https://hledger.org/1.41/hledger.html#balance-assertions