Hello World

Welcome to FOSAI!

We are a community dedicated to forwarding the availability and access to Free Open Source Artificial Intelligence (F.O.S.A.I.).

Here you will find your new Lemmy landing page for AI news, software, applications, research, and development updates regarding all FOSS (free open-source software) designed for AI (FOSAI).

Free Open-Source Artificial Intelligence

The goal of this community is to be a mixture of r/LocalLLaMA, r/oobabooga, and r/StableDiffusion with the intention of spreading awareness and accessibility for all free open-source artificial intelligence applications, tools, platforms, and strategies from the bleeding edges of AI.

Those of this community should feel welcome treating this place as another casual discussion hub for concepts and topics similar to what r/Singularity and r/Futurology - used to chat about, but the sentiment I want to encourage here is one of optimism and creative empowerment, discovery and exploration.

Whether you like it or not - AI is here (and it’s here to stay). What that means, what you do with it, (and why) is completely up to you to figure out within your own life and aspirations. If you want a second opinion about something, let’s have a discussion about it with intellectual empathy and open-minded kindness.

Know that I don’t have the time and energy for moderating ‘me vs you’ narratives - or pushing the doom and gloom sentiment that this emerging technology typically gets a bad rap for. I understand the risks we’re facing; I leave it up to you to come to your own conclusions and live your life accordingly. At the end of the day, I’m here to help facilitate honest and open discussion, and to share the joy of technology in whatever shape or form it presents itself to me. At the end of this information transaction, I hope you retain a small piece that you find interesting and use it to brighten a life, whether yours or someone else’s.

Those of our community are focused on the silver linings of life, the excitement of our future, the hope of a brighter tomorrow. We are not afraid of anything but the failure of compassion and humanity in its smallest, most defining moments. To innovate is to think, to think is to live. Be mindful of what you say. Be mindful of what you do. Stay patient with others and cultivate a trust within yourself that never forgets to put thoughts into motion.

I want everyone to know that I am far from being an expert in Machine Learning (and Deep Learning in general). I don’t know everything, but I teach myself what I can. That being said, if you know something about AI, LLMs, python, json, data-processing, data-engineering, neural networks, machine learning, deep learning, full-stack development, front-end development, or any DevOps / IaC practices - please consider subscribing and contributing to the discussion.

Together perhaps we can unite with other FOSS communities to usher in an era of FOSAI that evolves with the rapidly emerging ideas filling this sector. Or perhaps we remain a niche corner of AI development and discussion. Regardless - all technologists are welcome here, from engineers to data scientists, to hobbyists, and complete newbies.

I will do my best to keep everyone here in the loop with the latest and greatest news to hit the space. At the same time, you should voice your opinion if I am doing something wrong, or if you want to be heard.

The more like-minded individuals we gather here the more chances we will have to shape what AI will look like for generations to come. If you know anything about AI, LLMs, or Machine/Deep Learning in general, please consider subbing and contributing to the discussion by sharing your project and/or subject approach!

The Bleeding Edge

The applications I am about to recommend are limited to the suite of AI tools I’ve collected the last few months and the knowledge I’ve accumulated up to this point (June 2023). If you notice something missing that is worth sharing, please by all means don’t hesitate to add a link or share your thoughts in the comments. I will be expanding on these tools in a subsequent post Getting Started with FOSAI / Your Lemmy Crash Course to Artificial Intelligence

Resources

FOSAI

Fediverse / FOSAI

LLM Leaderboards

LLM Search Tools

LLM Eval & Benchmark Resources

Documentation Theory

  • @[email protected]English
    3•11 months ago

    Nice idea! Moreso that despite software-related AI seems to be more and more opensourced, it really looks to me that it’s seriously lacking on the hardware side. Opensource code running on proprietary hardware is a good start, but we’d all be better if it was open and public through and through.

    • @BlaedOPMEnglish
      4•11 months ago

      The good news is that it appears AMD is aware of this and has partnered with HuggingFace to make the hardware side of things more accessible.

      While they’re still planning what that might look like - having another contender in the space other than NVIDIA’s CUDA architecture is healthy for everyone in the open-source communities. I’m hoping with their help we can continue to reduce the cost running FOSAI software (even if NVIDIA GPUs continue to outperform).

      I think initiatives like this - and the reduction of costs in training due to algorithm optimizations will carry us to the promised land of true AGI that is both low-compute and widely available. We’re still in the early phase, though.

      Curious to see how all of this continues to develop the rest of this year…