Sorry for missing this question. I personally use a mix of GPT-4V and uncensored Llama-2 70b running locally on my MacBook Pro. Professionally, I appreciate models that I fully control: Llama family models like quantized Orca-2, Yi 34B, etc.
For user-facing applications, cloud models are a nonstarter. Their LLMs lack basic, foundational service requirements:
1. Consistency - their models change frequently and without notice, so good luck getting reliable results even with low temperatures.
2. Reliability -- these opaque models have prompts/responses which are packed with landmines, found only by triggering them. SomeCorporation's models are exclusively aligned with SomeCorporation, never aligned with you. So make sure to align yourself with SomeCompany's tool, rather than the opposite. And also, hope that the company doesn't suddenly implode, because apparently that's a plausible thing.
3. Maintainability -- you get a handy black box around what's already a black box. So good luck understanding/maintaining/extending the model. Unless your needs never extends beyond filling out an (alleged) system model text field, or uploading a few files.
4. Security -- sending sensitive data directly to people with enormous incentive to (mis)use it is probably not a stellar idea
So I'm all in with open source. I'm eternally grateful for Facebook's charity here. I'll take "good enough" models that I control over the horrifying "intelligence as a service with builtin thought crime policing."
Sorry for missing this question. I personally use a mix of GPT-4V and uncensored Llama-2 70b running locally on my MacBook Pro. Professionally, I appreciate models that I fully control: Llama family models like quantized Orca-2, Yi 34B, etc.
For user-facing applications, cloud models are a nonstarter. Their LLMs lack basic, foundational service requirements:
1. Consistency - their models change frequently and without notice, so good luck getting reliable results even with low temperatures.
2. Reliability -- these opaque models have prompts/responses which are packed with landmines, found only by triggering them. SomeCorporation's models are exclusively aligned with SomeCorporation, never aligned with you. So make sure to align yourself with SomeCompany's tool, rather than the opposite. And also, hope that the company doesn't suddenly implode, because apparently that's a plausible thing.
3. Maintainability -- you get a handy black box around what's already a black box. So good luck understanding/maintaining/extending the model. Unless your needs never extends beyond filling out an (alleged) system model text field, or uploading a few files.
4. Security -- sending sensitive data directly to people with enormous incentive to (mis)use it is probably not a stellar idea
So I'm all in with open source. I'm eternally grateful for Facebook's charity here. I'll take "good enough" models that I control over the horrifying "intelligence as a service with builtin thought crime policing."