Im using Ollama on my server with the WebUI. It has no GPU so its not quick to reply but not too slow either.
Im thinking about removing the VM as i just dont use it, are there any good uses or integrations into other apps that might convince me to keep it?
It’s a tool like any other. If you don’t have any usecase for it, just don’t use it.
I use it to summarize release notes and generate some minor descriptions for generic stuff in my TTRPG campaigns.
generate some minor descriptions for generic stuff in my TTRPG campaigns.
Need a quick 200 word description of the interior of an apothecary? Or a band of marauding orcs? It’s been a huge time saver for me.
Yup, never had to usw “Random NPC Merchant No. 14” again.
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I use the Continue VS Code plugin with Ollama to use a couple of different models (deepseek-coder-v2 & starcoder2) to recreate a local only Github Copilot type experience for coding. This is on an M1 Apple Silicon though. For autocomplete the generation needs to be pretty brisk - I’m not sure how that would go in a VM without a GPU.
How well does the M1 chip keep up? What size models are you running with it? Interested in getting an M1 laptop and I am curious.
playing dnd alone is pretty cool
Any model recommendation for that?
The ones i tried get stuck in a loop at some point due to the small context windows.
the answer is very spesific to ur pc and amount of vram you have availşble to you. But anything lama 3 even 8b models finetuned to DM or write stories should theoritically work. The other reply that reccomends connecting to another program to make sure rules are consistent sounds like a great idea whşch I have not tried. I use silly tavern as the ui whşch has lots of options and shit to mske thşngs wkrk well. I would reccomend goşng şnto the “KoboldAI” discord and askşng şn the support sectşon folk there are very helpfull sorry for not beşng able to gşve a strsight answer Also boost the context size way up that shit makes dşfference I habe like 16k or sumthin. good luck!
What on earth is going on with your keyboad?!
Besides that, i have 20GB of VRAM and 64GB or RAM. I can run the mixtral 8x7b model relatively usable. Currently i use oobabooga the most.
I type very poorly on my phone. with that much vram ypu csn get somethşng lşke a 70b model defineyly ask around in the koboldai community that shşt’s crszy
Yeah even gpt4o couldn’t keep track of encounters, run battles etc. in my case…
I think if you wanted to do it mechanically consistently you’d probably need to integrate it into a vtt where you give it context and potentially fine-tune it to give quest related summaries & gming rather than just “stuff”
VTT integration would be one hell of a job to do.
I don’t know how tech savvy you are, but I’m assuming since your on lemmy it’s pretty good :)
The way we’ve solved this sort of problem in the office is by using the LLM’s JSON response, and a prompt that essentially keeps a set of JSON objects alongside the actual chat response.
In the DND example, this would be a set character sheets that get returned every response but only changed when the narrative changes them. More expensive, and needing a larger context window, but reasonably effective.
“cool”
Wanting answers to things you don’t want google to know that you don’t know.
There are a huge number of vastly better solutions to get that…
Such as…?
A privacy respecting search engine.
IMO LLMs are ok to get a head start of searching. Like got a vague idea of something but don’t know the exact keywords. LLMs can help and use the output on whatever search engine you like. This saves a lots of time tinkering the right keywords.
Sure, or you could send an email to the leading international institution on the matter to get a very accurate answer!
Is it the most reasonable course of action? No. Is it more reasonable than waste a gazillion Watt so you can maybe get some better keywords to then paste in a search engine? Yes.
Once the model is trained, the electricity that it uses is trivial. LLMs can run on a local GPU. So you’re completely wrong.
No I’m not. Other questions?
Those were statements. Statements of fact.
Once the models are already trained, it takes almost no power to use them.
Yes, TRAINING the models uses an immense amount of power - but utilizing the training datasets locally consumes almost nothing. I can run the llama 7b set on a 15w Raspberry Pi for example. Just leaving my PC on uses 400w. This is all local – Nothing entering or leaving the Pi. No communication to an external server, nothing being done on anybody else’s server or any AWS instances, etc.
I’ve used it to summarize long articles, news posts, or videos when the title/thumbnail looks interesting but I’m not sure if it’s worth the 10+ minutes to read/watch.
There are other solutions, like a dedicated summarizer, but I’ve investigated into them and they only extract exact quotes from the original text, an LLM can also paraphrase making the summary a bit more informative IMO.
(For example, one article mentioned a quote from an expert talking about a company, the summarizer only extracted the quote and the flow of the summary made me believe the company said it, but the LLM properly stated the quote came from the expert)This project https://github.com/goniszewski/grimoire has in it’s road map a way to connect to an AI to summarize the bookmarks you make and generate at 3 tags.
I’ve seen the code, I don’t remember what the exact status of the integration.
Also I have a few models dedicated for coding, so I’ve also asked a few pieces of code and configurations to just get started on a project, nothing too complicated.
Which one do you use to summerize videos?
Does it work with porn videos?
I use local AI for coding (more recently) and ML Photo storage facial recognition and security camera object detection (been using the later 2 for years now actually, don’t want that kind of info out on someone else’s cloud training on my images)
Ollama without a GPU is pretty useless unless you’re using with Apple silicon. I’d just get rid of it until you get a GPU.
Works fine on an 11th Gen i5. Not fast but not slow
I have never tested in on Apple silicon but it works fine on my laptop
What are your laptop specs?
Intel 12th gen i5
CPU is only one factor regarding specs, a small one at that. What kind of t/s performance are you getting with a standard 13B model?
Roleplay (text adventures), a (stupid but occasionally funny) dungeon master, translation and help with creativity. These are the use cases I found. If you don’t need that, you might get rid of it.
I have a 4070 sitting around collecting dust that I got from a trade, I’ve been thinking about setting it up with whispr and TTS and having a way to talk to my house.
I have a couple of smart home integrations, mostly air conditioning, light switches, security, and doors.
What I would like would be to have a few speakers on the walls that can talk to my server where I can say something like, hey computer, turn on the lights in the dining room and the lights in the dining room would turn on without transmitting that information to Google or Amazon.
You can try integrating with SEPIA. Not that I used it befote but it surely looks promising.
I am really curious if you can get the traditional smart functionality along with a LLM. Maybe have some sort of keyword the prompts the AI. You also could write a custom generated system prompt that includes the weather, time and any other information
https://github.com/hendkai/paperless_sort_low_quality_ollama let ai tag your paperless ngx files base on content.
Think of LLMs like a stupid office worker. You wouldn’t rely on them to make critical decisions, but they’re valuable for tedious stuff.
For example, my calendar changed the way to enter new events breaking my workflow. Now I just type out a skeletal schedule and have LLM convert that into a .csv that I import.
I’m thinking of Ripping my CD collection again. I’m researching a way to use a LLM to tidy up the metadata.
I had a folder full of random stuff I’ve saved for years. Had a LLM organize and categorize it for me. I had to tweak the prompt enough that this was a medium difficulty task, but still way easier than doing it manually.
Can you share some info on how you did that folder organization? Did you provide the AI with a list of files?
for the metadata, LLMs may not prove so great. Use MusicBrainz Picard or Beets
I’m thinking of Ripping my CD collection again. I’m researching a way to use a LLM to tidy up the metadata.
If you ever figure out how to use AI to determine the genre(s) of a song, let me know. Have been looking for something like that for quite a while.
Nextcloud Recognize is supposed to do that, but I haven’t tried it. You might try looking down that road.
Thanks for the tip! I took a look and it seems like Recognize uses this: https://github.com/jordipons/musicnn
Last update was 4 years ago but will give it a try this weekend.
