Hello everyone!
I have finally found some time for myself, and I felt it was right to commit some of it here. These last few months have been a wild ride for all of us, I’m sure. I wanted to start this post to regroup and rekindle our interests to see wherever they may take us next.
So, what do you want to see out of our community in the near future? I am opening up the floor for you to leave your comment below and let me know how we can make things a little more interesting here.
📰 Community Feature #1 ✅
AI/ML/DL News / Papers / Projects
Where it all began. I’ll continue covering a wide breadth of stuff I find interesting in more curated posts, including links to any cool papers, projects, or news I find curious.
🎓 Community Feature #2 ✅
Open Source Learning Resources
I have a few updates coming to https://fosai.xyz soon. I’m thinking about expanding it in other directions, let me know if there’s something on this site you want me to explore or expand upon. Everything on there is also consolidated as resources on our sidebar.
📚 Community Feature #3 ✅
Collaborative Learning
When someone new posts a question or needs help - a lot of you are quick to jump in and respond before I get a chance to see it. I think that’s awesome (that so many of you are willing to reply to questions so fast). Big thanks to everyone who engages with those posts. I really appreciate the collaborative support! I don’t have all the time in the world, so those who can help guide others into this wonderful would of AI are encouraged to continue answering questions and helping each other. It means a lot to me (and the person asking the question!).
🕹️ Community Feature #4 ☑️
Games and Stories ❔
Anyone care about games or stories made out of / built on AI stacks? I can share a few projects that might be fun to explore, more custom to exploring a general sense of how AI may evolve in games, story, and entertainment. I could start a casual series building a simulated narrative contextual to [email protected] and we can study its evolution over time together. I have a narrative and setting for this (PROJECT HYPERION), but I have no idea if anyone would be interested in reading this series. It would be delivered like an augmented reality magazine that teaches you concepts from this site in a Discord Server based around these simulated game world rules. This was a highly experimental project I started, but shelved. I can dust this off and share it here if there’s enough intrigue. Read more about PROJECT HYPERION in the notes at the bottom of this post.
🔬 Community Feature #5 ☑️
Random Prototypes❔
I tinker a lot, many times with incoherent prototypes. At this point, I think it might be worth exploring specific use cases and spending more time prototyping concepts you all vote on? In this series, you could ask me to prototype something (or explore the possibilities of achieving some experimental goal) we can benchmark and measure together post-by-post. These random prototypes would be random projects that we explore purely for fun or particular business ideas/applications. They could be example implementations or satire representations of projects built to help learn with a more hands-on approach.
🧪 Community Feature #6 ☑️
Benchmarks❔
I have considered doing a benchmark series, but this would take a bit of setup for the best results. At least for me to do it consistently the way I’d want… That being said, I could spend time kicking this series off too (if there was enough interest). Here I would try different LLMs across a consistent bench we devise as a community, whether local or a cloud-based environment. From there, we can explore any size quantization, parameter, model architecture, or implementation approach and see how they stack up side-by-side.
Got an idea❔Vote for it below! ☑️
Do you have an idea? Something you want to see out of [email protected]? Share your series or vote on your favorite idea in the comments below!
Other Notes & Food for Thought 📓
- Growth: I’m not looking to rapidly scale or grow, this community should remain holistic and engaging.
- Quality Over Quantity: Recent feedback has made me reconsider how to share updates. Going forward, all content will be handwritten and hand reported (as it was). I will be focusing on quality over quantity. Shoutout to [email protected] for the honest feedback.
- Best AI/ML/DL Forum of the Fediverse: I’ve always thought of this community being a gateway to AI/ML/DL that is wide open for anyone who wants to learn it (similar to /r/LocalLLaMA, but outside of Reddit). I think we should strive to keep answering questions, but keep asking them too. We are braving this new frontier with many others we should recognize and help along the way.
- PROJECT HYPERION: The Game and Story I wrote based on this community is called PROJECT HYPERION. It exists only on my laptop at the moment. This would be played as an augmented reality Discord Roleplay Server where you would interact with simulated characters and residents of a digital sci-fi city called HYPERION. With each act, a magazine series accompanies the world, exploring the fictional story of HYPERION, shared at regular intervals (for free). These digital mentors and story characters would teach you material, concepts, and projects from [email protected] but through the medium that is HYPERION, living their own simulated lives asynchronous from your chats with them. It is blurring the line of education and entertainment, video games and AR/VR. This has been on my mind for awhile, and may become something larger than fosai, whether it starts here or later in the future. If we vote for this concept, know that it would come in the form of our first Discord server and may evolve into other things if it finds traction. HYPERION is kind of like an AR GameInformer, but for AI/ML/DL contextualized to a fictional world based on real science and breakthroughs. I can work on this if you want me to, but I don’t want to take the detour if it’s not worth the time. I had a lot of fun designing it, and that was enough. But I’d be more than happy to share this little world of mine if you wanted to hear more about it.
Thank you 🌎
Remember, this community is as much yours (all of you subscribed) as it is mine! Speak up if there’s something in particular you want to see out of it.
I am already more than happy with our size and what we have covered so far, but I know we will grow as the future unfolds.
I’ll leave this pinned for while so you can let me know how you want to shape this future and we’ll head that direction together.
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Well, I’m mostly interested in LLMs. So my personal opinion only applies to a part of the whole story:
〰️ for #1 I already use:
rentry.orgSo I’m pretty much taken care of with tutorials and news. But we can post them here as well for other people if they like. Just don’t post every paper, I have to somehow filter what’s really significant. I’m not a scientist that wants to read all the minor news and papers.
👌 I don’t know much about #2. If someone likes to share some personal experience with anything, for example Learning Resources: Go ahead! And please add some personal insight to the recommendations.
👍 #3 great. I think that’s why most of us are here.
👍 🫶 #4 and #5: Awesome. Yes please. I’m mainly on Lemmy for the discussion and to engage with people. As you might have read inbetween the lines of my previous words, I personally don’t care for communities that just dump news/information with zero engagement and little personal connection. But I love to engage with people. Listen to what they’re up to. What ideas/projects they have. Bounce my own ideas. Read about what other people struggle with. Interesting niche applications. What frameworks do other people use to program that stuff. Creative applications like games and cross-overs to other domains. How we can make generative agents work with a Llama-based model… And I like those YouTube videos in which someone has made an AI Super Mario or Lara Croft and explains the computer vision etc… Number 4 and 5 are exactly my thing. (As long as it’s balanced and not every post about the same game/thing… But I’d like to know about it.)
👍 #6: I need more benchmarks for LLMs doing creative tasks like storywriting. There’s mostly benchmarks for factual knowledge and one for ERP. But they’re oftentimes less convincing when it comes to real world applications. And the proper scientific benchmarks are perplexity or super specific human evaluation. It’s difficult to do something meaningful that applies to a variety of tasks. For me, word-of-mouth has proven most helpful.
Regarding the LocalLLaMA: We have [email protected] over here. Posts aren’t super frequent but people will reply to you.
(Regarding my posts: I myself am a bit loud in the last few days. That’s because I caught a cold and have plenty of time commenting things online. I’m better now, I think this one will be the last for today. I think I’m going to enjoy the sun outside. Just balance my long reply with what other people like. For example the 2 people that have commented so far seem to have other priorities than me. 😉 And since we already have a localllama community here, maybe it’s for the best if we have a different spin on things here and over there.)