Only been here a short while, and have had mainly positive experiences. I’ll usually give people benefit of the doubt as it can be hard for some to express themselves in text - so can come across as rude. Obvious trolling I just ignore.
Mobster
Yes, RAF in early ‘90s. Taught me how to polish boots, shoot a gun (SA-80), march, stand around for hours, and flew a Chipmunk once.
It was a choice of either that or ‘Community Service’.
Like the idea, but would have no clue how feasible something like that is.
I currently run LLMs locally using ollama, and through the terminal - I know most people would not either want or be able to do this, but I’m glad I have an alternative to the current popular AI services.
I don’t disagree. If there is no alternative then this is better than nothing for most people.
Personally speaking, knowing about the background of some of the investors involved (Andreesen), and their active role in what’s happening in the US, I personally have cooled on using Mistral somewhat. Will still use though if I have to, but have plans to ultimately self-host - will have to make do with a stripped back AI experience.
I can, and thanks for clarifying. It is probably because I used the mobile app, as opposed to pc version - which I assume you used.
Thank you for this. I tried to replicate but Mistral only output a handful. Any advice?
Thought I’d share this here, may be of interest to some
Sleeping with the fishes
I haven’t done any proper validation - was just a very basic PoC, using resources available to anyone (a list of companies and their subsidiary brands + free LLM) to see if it would work in principle.
The file itself is sourced from Wikipedia, so is probably accurate enough if you just wanted to ctrl+f and search manually.
Here is a list that may be helpful
https://files.catbox.moe/jtmcb5.pdf
And if you were not totally against using AI, then you could load that list to Mistral, take a pic and identify things quickly. As per the photo.
Hi there. I really like your thinking. I’m not a professional developer, but I suspect it’s only a matter of time that apps that do something like this are available.
Here’s a post I saw on a related community which describes something like what would make you happy :)
https://feddit.uk/post/25526618
Also, I tested my own very basic idea by taking a picture and uploading to the Mistral chat - it identified the products accurately, which was promising.
Won’t let me paste the text - probably too long!