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Re:Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of ... by FL33TW00D on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @01:36PM (#35630976)
This isn't correct. It's 100% feasible to run very capable models on consumer devices.

I wrote up a feasibility investigation last year: https://fleetwood.dev/posts/a-case-for-client-side-machine-l...

Re:Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of ... by frozenlettuce on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @02:18PM (#35631461)
I ran alpaca 7B in a 2015 Acer laptop (it was slow, but worked!)
Re:Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of ... by crazygringo on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @04:04PM (#35632647)
But there's a big difference between running "very capable" models that use most available resources and consume tons of power and run slowly...

...versus running the best models available, in a few seconds, without using up the memory the main app you're using needs for running.

These are all mainly going to be run remotely for general consumer usage for quite a while I think.

Re:Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of ... by FL33TW00D on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @05:09PM (#35633358)
How many applications on your machine right now are GPU accelerated? There is a chunk of silicon that spends almost all its time doing nothing.
Re:Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of ... by crazygringo on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @08:31PM (#35634976)
Sure but it's not that powerful. It's not a gaming rig.

Also it had better spend almost all its time doing nothing or it would kill my battery. Same as with my CPU.

The main point still stands though -- it's pretty useless if it takes a couple minutes to do what a server can do in a couple seconds.

Re:Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of ... by earthboundkid on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @10:53PM (#35635811)
How do you think the server does it in a couple of seconds? Maybe we should get rid of gaming rigs because servers are fast, right?
Re:Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of ... by pdntspa on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:31PM (#35636038)
Every single one of them since both windows and mac use the GPU for window management

I miss Aero, that shit was so cool...

Re:Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of ... by moffkalast on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @04:08PM (#35632686)
> very capable models

Well that's the problem though, those models don't come any close to being useful at all. At least not yet. And they also run much slower.

As compute increases in general, there will be larger and more capable state of the art models and it'll make more sense to just use those instead of trying to run some local one that won't give you any useful answers. Data centers will always have a few orders of magnitude more horsepower than your average laptop, even with some kind of inference accelerator card.

Re:Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of ... by FL33TW00D on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @05:10PM (#35633372)
Stable diffusion isn't useful at all?
Re:Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of ... by moffkalast on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @07:18PM (#35634515)
Do people use it for anything practical? Making stock photos maybe? I haven't really had a proper use case for it and all the random things I tried to make with it weren't good enough to use with anything. Could be useful for making concepts for real artists, but last I heard they were all too busy boycotting it.

Also, not an LLM.

Re:Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of ... by UncleEntity on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @08:45PM (#35635078)
> I haven't really had a proper use case for it and all the random things I tried to make with it weren't good enough to use with anything.

Sounds a lot like most of my early programming experiments…

Though I’ve heard on good authority that the early programmers looked past being able to calculate ballistic charts and have done some interesting things with these “computer” things.

Re:Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of ... by zirgs on Thursday April 20, 2023 @05:09AM (#35637807)
There are some models that can generate tileable textures, for example.
Re:Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of ... by moffkalast on Thursday April 20, 2023 @05:32AM (#35637919)
Ah interesting yeah, found this one: https://replicate.com/tommoore515/material_stable_diffusion

Trying out some prompts, maybe last I used SD my mistake was going with a lower resolution to speed up generation. I literally cannot get this one to make anything that isn't a weird blob at 256px and lower, but at 512px it works fine? Weird that it's so resolution dependant. I guess some proper stuff can be made at 1024px and above.

Re:Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of ... by whywhywhywhy on Thursday April 20, 2023 @08:39AM (#35639019)
SD basically doesnt function at 256px, it was trained on 512px
Re:Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of ... by moffkalast on Thursday April 20, 2023 @10:35AM (#35640677)
Not sure why they'd give the option to run at those resolutions then?
Re:Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of ... by zirgs on Friday April 21, 2023 @05:24AM (#35651446)
SD 1.1 was trained on 256x256 so, I guess it was left in there for backwards compatibility reasons.
Re:Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of ... by wokwokwok on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:48PM (#35636151)
How is running a LLM related to stable diffusion?

Your contention is that models will run on devices; but latent diffusion models have lower memory footprints (see: latent).

The hardware you need to run a good LLM is what, 10x more than a latent diffusion one?

They are not comparable.

Re:Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of ... by circuit10 on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @04:35PM (#35632989)
“very capable” and “state of the art” aren’t the same thing. In this case the gap is huge
Re:Stability AI Launches the First of Its StableLM Suite of ... by FL33TW00D on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @05:11PM (#35633378)
This is true, but a good subset of tasks can be accomplished by much smaller models. Copilot is 12B!