Build Your Own AI: Virtual Graduate Student Equipment Upgrade

I’ve gone on and on about how Large Language Models — so-called AIs — are crippled by training on bad data. Garbage In; Garbage Out! So let’s build a local LLM and feed it good data for a specific purpose. Welcome to Virtual Grad Student! We’re going to set up a Large Language Model to run locally, feed it a clean set of data, then make it available to authors as a virtual writer’s assistant. For example, to pull together a few paragraphs of background on Roman aqueduct architecture. Today we're upgrading hardware to run h2oGPT locally.

Links:

The h2oGPT open source Large Language Model

Common Corpus, the largest public domain dataset for training LLMs

Here’s the old hardware struggling with Photoshop:

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