There are all kinds of things I want to be able to do with a LLM that are a lot tighter than general chatbots.
I'd love to see a demo of GPT-J on an iPhone!
The best models will be by API but there is a threshold of utility for LLMs, below which they're just bad story telling toys, that hasn't been available for home users until recently, with FlanT5s and LLaMas.
I’m sure someone did the work you suggest to let folks run on this on more reasonable setups- but I never saw it on the front page here.
Did they achieve GPT-3 performance on anything at that model size? Happy to be corrected, but my understanding was llama does in fact outperform GPT-3 even at the smaller parameter-counts on certain downstream tasks due to using the chinchilla training regime (and other tricks).
I hate to pooh-pooh it for everyone, but this was possible before LLaMa. GPT-J-125m/6b have been around for a while, and are frankly easier to install and get results out of. The smaller pruned model even fits on an iPhone.
The problem is more that these smaller models won't ever compete with GPT-scale APIs. Tomorrow's local LLaMa might beat yesterday's ChatGPT, but I think those optimistic for the democratization of chatbot intelligence are setting their hopes a bit high. LLaMa really isn't breaking new ground.