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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, if you already have it then it’s not really an extra cost. But the smaller models perform less well and less reliably.

In order to write a book that’s convincing enough to fool at least some buyers, I wouldn’t expect a Llama2 7B to do the trick, based on what I see in my work (ML engineer). But even at work, I run Llama2 70B quantized at most, not the full size one. Full size unquantized requires 320 GPU vram, and that’s just quite expensive (even more so when you have to rent it from cloud providers).

Although if you already have a GPU that size at home, then of course you can run any LLM you like :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Okay, now ask yourself, are these books convincing enough to fool anyone? Because it’s just as likely that company has lofty promises and uses a toaster to generate the content.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Fair enough. They only have to convince the self help books crowd 🙃