Will 'AIs' be collected as some people collect books or vintage electronics?

parisivy · 2024-07-20T15:57:29.000Z

'They have one of the best first wave AI collections'.'What's the provenance? This AI was first own by X and was later part of Y's collection, one the best institutional collections in Asia'.Could these be plausible statements in a near future?How about an AI 'zoo'? Thank you.

talldayo 1 year ago |

No not really. "AIs" today are entirely digital LLMs that can be copied, shared and redistributed for a marginal fee already. "Collecting" AI would make absolutely no sense, especially since most of the AIs worth collecting cannot be used for commercial/museum-fee purposes. The only such thing that will exist in the future are the people that digitally archive today's model files.

parisivy 1 year ago | |

Music can be copied, shared and redistributed for a marginal fee. Text even more. Nevertheless, you have record and book collectors. What's the difference?

talldayo 1 year ago | | |

Records and books get official, physical prints? People collect stamps too, but if you turned them into JPEGs those same people wouldn't care anymore.

parisivy 1 year ago | | |

People collect video or digital art. What would be the difference in that case?

talldayo 1 year ago | | |

In that case, they can collect whatever they want. The unique or special value of owning it in your collection is effectively nothing since I can enjoy the full-fidelity version at no cost wherever I go. This is the inherent problem with "collecting" something that is digital and can be infinitely reproduced.

I collect things because they're unique. Things that exist everywhere in abundance are not interesting to me. I could collect Coke-a-Cola bottles, but that wouldn't be special; I'd just be hoarding a bunch of trash.

illuminant 1 year ago |

I collect them using ollama. My favorite go to is nous-hermes2-mixtral, though others have things to say. They're all distinctive (phi3, llama3, wizardly, etc.) and can be a riot with the right prompts.

h2odragon 1 year ago |

I think it'll be easier to keep specifications of inputs and methods to rebuild models if need be.