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AI Unchained
by Guy Swann
If you are looking for self-hosted and sovereign AI tools - you've come to the right place. Making sense of the technology and concepts behind AI, breaking down the tools to gain more freedom and autonomy in our lives, and investigating how to avoid being trapped in centralized systems of control. If you want a sovereign future in the digital age, this is where we will build it. This is AI Unchained.
Episodes
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Ai Take_037 - Focus
"Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing." — Ron Swanson Focus. Easily spoken, hard to live by. There are many lessons that Bitcoin teaches, and one that is more clearly true the older I get, is that every single thing in a trade off. And not just solutions, or tools, or networks, but the...
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Ai Take_036 - Does AI Even Have a Product?
Is the pursuit of artificial general intelligence a pipe dream? Are the economics of building massive AI models unsustainable? And what if the future of AI isn't about creating a single, all-powerful intelligence, but rather a multitude of small, specialized tools? In this episode, we explore the...
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Ai Read_012 - The Subprime AI Crisis
What do numerous over-hyped product launches, massively subsidized compute, over extended investment, lack of customer adoption, unwillingness to pay extra, enormous and increasing costs, and total dependence on a few massive players have in common? The big tech Ai industry! Today we dive into a...
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Ai_035 - My Favorite Ai Tool
Today we dive into my favorite Ai app, combining dozens of open source tools unlocking a new era of creativity and productivity? How can you harness the power of AI to simplify workflows and organize our digital lives? Join me as I explore the possibilities and implications of AI-powered tools…
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Ai_034 - Small Models Reign Supreme
Will the increasing shift towards smaller, more efficient AI models revolutionize the way we interact with AI? Can open-source models and fine-tunes like Hermes 3 and Grok 2 challenge the dominance of proprietary models? And what does the future hold for AI development as the hype and investment...
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Ai_033 - Fear to Freedom: The Optimistic Case for AI [The Staying Free Podcast]
"When you introduce 2 million, 10 million "developers" that were never developers into an ecosystem that's used to having closed platforms and silos and stuff, what do those 10 million motivated people build? They're more likely to build the solution that they always wanted and that they build...
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Ai_032 - Open Source Ai is Catching Up
Open source Ai is catching up. In this episode of AI Unchained, we explore the implications of the dominant open source models actually competing with proprietary models. We challenge assumptions about AI development trajectories, drawing parallels with other technological evolutions. Could the...
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AI_031 - How I use AI
Is AI really all hype and oversold gimmicks, or is it going to change the world and replace everyone with software workers? Or are both of these views a distraction from what's right in front of us? How is AI useful today for very real tasks? In this episode, we'll dive into some major new...
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Ai_030 - Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion
How might open-source AI development shape the future of artificial intelligence and global competition? Guy Swan examines Leopold Aschenbrenner's "Situational Awareness" piece and Mark Zuckerberg's recent article on open-source AI, exploring the potential for an intelligence explosion, the risks...
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Ai Read_011 - The AGI Manhattan Project
"Do we need an AGI Manhattan Project? Slowly at first, then all at once, it will become clear: this is happening, things are going to get wild, this is the most important challenge for the national security of the United States since the invention of the atomic bomb. In one form or another, the...
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Ai Read_010 - SuperAlignment
"Reliably controlling AI systems much smarter than we are is an unsolved technical problem. And while it is a solvable problem, things could very easily go off the rails during a rapid intelligence explosion. Managing this will be extremely tense; failure could easily be catastrophic." ~ Leopold...
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Ai Read_009 - The Challenges of the Intelligence Explosion
What if the race to AGI isn't just about code, but a massive industrial mobilization? As AI capabilities grow exponentially, will we see trillion-dollar compute clusters and unprecedented energy demands? And in this high-stakes competition, how critical is securing AI secrets from rival nations?...
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Ai_029 - New Tools and Major Moves in AI
Open AI signals that they are the surveillance leviathon we suspected they always were. Anthropic's Claude 3.5 may be even better than ChatGPT. I explore and detail out some new tools and build new tiny apps to recreate some of the incredible features of the Apple AI announcements, but in a…
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Ai Read_008 - From AGI to Superintelligence
Are we on the verge of an intelligence explosion that could redefine the future of AI and humanity? Explore Leopold Ashen Brenner's insights on the leap from AGI to superintelligence and what it could mean for every aspect of our lives. Join me as we delve into the potential and perils of a...
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Ai Read_007 - SITUATIONAL AWARENESS - The Decade Ahead
"Do not expect the vertiginous pace of progress to abate. The trend lines look innocent, but their implications are intense... Scaling up simple deep learning techniques has just worked. The models just want to learn, and we're about to do another 100,000X by the end of 2027. It won't be long...
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Ai_028 - How Much Do You Trust Apple?
Today Guy Swann dives deep into everything about the "Apple Intelligence" announcement, which aims to integrate powerful AI capabilities directly into the company's operating systems. He raises thought-provoking questions about the implications of such a system, particularly regarding privacy and...
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Ai_027 - Is AI Breaking the Web?
A trend I've noticed with Ai, is that it has shifted itself into the middleman position between everyone and the normal surfing of the web. While it may save the user time, could this be disrupting the very traffic that monetizes content on the internet? With this fundamental change in the...
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Ai_026 - The Scam of Open AI
A very unique dynamic occurs with generative AI. LLM companies are scraping the internet for millions of works belonging to other people, photos, videos and film, forum posts, tutorials, all of this human created content meant to provide value to others in hopes of monetizing the attention, or...
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Ai_025 - Bullsh.t and Breakthroughs
Today we explore the deluge of announcements from both OpenAi and Google. With a plethora of Ai features dropping at Google I/O And Chat GPT-4o landing with an ai that can be spoken to like a human, how do we determine the difference between groundbreaking AI tools and mere gimmicks. How do we...
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Ai_024 - CASCDR
"We're basically at a fork in the road. I think that there's a good chance we go the wrong way and you end up with a situation like China. We need to build these tools that serve Liberty and not tyranny. And we need to design these systems correctly. And then on top of that, I think, as I pointed...
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Ai_023 - The Promise of Personal AI
How close are we to realizing the dream of personal AI? Dive into the potential of small, efficient AI models that enhance our self-awareness and improve our lives without compromising our privacy. Could these advancements lead us to a future where we not only manage but truly own our data,...
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Ai_022 - Applying Ai
How can AI be harnessed to manage and enhance personal and professional digital interactions more effectively? In this episode of "AI Unchained," explore the essential tools and concepts needed to apply AI in self-hosted environments, navigate the intricacies of vector embeddings, and integrate…
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Ai_021 - Ai Hardware & the Next Wave
In today's episode of AI Unchained we dive into a plethora of new developments in Ai tailored hardware, the scope of what leaps in performance and capacity we may see in the next year, what it means for open source, how to access your local run Ai from anywhere with the Pear Stack, and yet…
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Ai Read_006 - How (Actually) Open AI Wins
"As I see it, humanity is at a turning point where we must either embrace a small handful of totalitarian super intelligences or move AI to the edge, allowing a wide diversity of machine intelligences to flourish in cooperation with an equally diverse set of human intelligences, forming a truly...
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Ai_20 - Instability Ai & Commoditized Intelligence
Today we delve into the leadership upheaval at Stability AI, Apple finally putting their cards on the table, the breadth of tools available for image and video generation, more ways to use LLMs to build micro apps, the release of numerous new models, and highlighting broader trends in the AI...
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Ai Read_005 - Here Lies the Internet, Murdered By Generative Ai
"All around the nation there are toddlers plunked down in front of iPads being subjected to synthetic runoff, deprived of human contact _even in the media they consume. There’s no other word but dystopian." ~ Mike Hoel What happens when the internet is so overrun with awful ai generated content,...
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Ai_019 - What if You Had a Personal Software Developer
With the announcement of Devin, the "First AI Software Engineer" by Cognition Labs, some are calling it a breakthrough, while others aren't so impressed and believe other models can do largely the same thing. What is the unique difference that Devin brings to the table and does it have…
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Ai_018 - Unlocking the world with AI
Advanced AI meets sustainable agriculture, opening a revolutionary pathway to food security. This episode brings Stephen Reisner from Potent Ponics into the spotlight, discussing a groundbreaking project that not only challenges the traditional AI applications in media but ventures into the heart...
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Ai_017 - From Closed AI to Open Source with NVK
The only way to protect yourself from closed, surveilled AI tools, is to use the open and private alternatives. When NVK couldn't find them, he decided to build them. Unleashed.chat begins to realize the potentially for open source LLMs to compete with ChatGPT and make use of unique means to...
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Ai_016 - Video AI Breakthroughs Already in 2024
"By the end of 2024, everyone will have tools easily available to them that will allow them to create any video they want by simply typing in a description and hitting generate." ~ Guy Swann Are we on the brink of a revolution where anyone can create blockbuster-quality videos from their bedroom?...
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Ai_015 - Integration, Not Agents with Luke from ParsePrompt
We are diving into a discussion today with the creator of ParsePrompt on a perspective of where Ai can be leveraged for the highest multiplier. How to use Ai to make one form of content valuable over multiple mediums in an automated an repeatable fashion. As well as exploring the nuance of the…
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Ai_014 - A Million New Devs with Hope TS
"I think AI can make a lot of things better, and if you put them together, if you are aware of the resources at your disposal, I think the average person can do more than the wealthiest person 200 years ago could have done" ~ HopeTS What if YOU could build the app you needed to solve your own...
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Ai Read_004 - Building a Language Model (Part 2)
"It’s important to step outside of the hype and critically-analyze what is and is not useful. It’s very easy to get caught up in “potential” applications, and allow the imagination to go all exponential on you. It’s a very human thing. Turning that imagination into something tangible is what a...
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Ai Read_003 - The Nexus of Bitcoin and AI (Part 1)
There are so many myths and misconceptions around AI models. What they can do, how they are trained, even the fundamentals of how the data for them is even collected and formatted to make sense. The idea that we can "train our own model" by just feeding it a ton of conversation or notes is...
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Ai_013 - Become Anyone With Ai
Today we explore the tools for voice changing ai and text-to-speech. What is Guy using, and what are the impacts of instant and easy voice copying be on content creation, copyright, the meme lords, fraud, and personal identity. Referenced in the show ElevenLabs.io (Link: https://elevenlabs.io/)...
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Ai_012 - A Big Leap Forward for Local LLMs
The models, the tools, the implementations, everything is moving incredibly fast. But a very interesting trend that I've been seeing, is that the open source benchmarks are improving just slightly faster than the closed source alternatives. Slowly but surely, they are catching up. The day may…
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Ai_011 - The Fears of Ai
Ai is a powerful tool, and thus, necessarily comes with incredible risk. It could obsolete millions of workers, taking jobs and productive capacity away from humans and consolidate it into corporations. It could make the average individual too dangerous, putting incredible power into the hands of...
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Ai_010 - Tools for Running Local LLMs
Today we dive into a few of my favorite tools for running LLMs locally on your machine, even the average consumer machine. With a huge variety of models to choose from and varying levels of customization and presets, these will get you started on running your own Ai, and getting the pieces...
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Ai Read_002 - A Coder Considers The Waning Days of the Craft
"Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it." ~ James Somers Today we dive into an amazing piece and such an important perspective on the future with Ai. With GPT being able to code with ease, so many tasks and projects...
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Ai_009 - 5 Ways You Should be Using Ai
If you are looking to maximize your productivity, to use the Ai tools available in a way that genuinely gives you that 5x improvement of your capabilities, this is the episode for you. These are the 5 ways I am currently using Ai more than any other to maximize my output. For other links…
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Ai Read_001 - A Gentle Introduction to Large Language Models
"Our first instinct when interacting with a Large Language Model should not be “wow these things must be really smart or really creative or really understanding”. Our first instinct should be “I’ve probably asked it to do something that it has seen bits and pieces of before”. That might mean it…
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Ai_008 - Ecash and Ai with Obi Nwosu
Get 50,000 free sats, plus sats back on everything you buy by signing up with Fold and the Spin+ Debit Card. bitcoinaudible.com/fold Obi Nwosu, co-founder and CEO of Fedi, joins us today to talk about the new innovations and challenges in re-decentralizing the web and how both Bitcoin and…
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Ai_007 - Global Markets for GPU Power with Christopher David
What if we could mitigate the enormous centralizing effects of the massive server farms and huge corporate entities, by pooling the GPU power of the millions of users and tinkerers who have unused or regularly idle computational power, into a decentralized marketplace for buying and selling Ai...
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Ai_006 - Evil, Intelligence & Value with Dhruv Bansal
Today we delve into a captivating topic, as we explore the potential relationship between AI and evil. My guest Dhruv Bansal brings his profound insights to the forefront as we navigate the depths of this subject. We contemplate the ethical dilemmas that arise when intelligence is harnessed for...
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Ai_005 - Ai, Fiat Incompatible with Kody Low
"So we had built this for a while, but because API calls are basically free, there really wasn't a good match for it. There were some good matches for it and people would do it, but as they were doing it, it was like 'I can do it this way, but I can also do it with dollars.' This is kind of a...
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Ai_004 - Bias, Ai's Best Feature with Aleks Svetski
Today we follow up from #002 with Alek Svetski to get him back on and digging into the open, community project they are releasing, the Spirit of Satoshi. They are exploring the capabilities of LLMs in combination with a data store in scaling one-on-one education that explores a topic or idea...
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Ai Read_000 - Google "We Have No Moat..."
"These contributions were pivotal in the image generation space, setting Stable Diffusion on a different path from Dall-E. Having an open model led to product integrations, marketplaces, user interfaces, and innovations that didn’t happen for Dall-E. The effect was palpable: rapid...
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Ai_003 - The Dark Side of Ai with Alex Lewin
Ai may be able to make us vastly more productive, far more creative, and orders of magnitude more dangerous. As Ai moves into the realm of creating hierarchies of tasks to accomplish larger goals, combined with the unparalleled scalability of its execution, a broad, self-spreading and malicious…
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Ai_003 - The Dark Side of Ai with Alex Lewin
Ai may be able to make us vastly more productive, far more creative, and orders of magnitude more dangerous. As Ai moves into the realm of creating hierarchies of tasks to accomplish larger goals, combined with the unparalleled scalability of its execution, a broad, self-spreading and malicious…
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Ai_002 - Bias & Truth in AI with Aleks Svetski
"This is the first time we've interacted with anything other than a parrot that can string together a coherent sentence. And it sounds stupid, but it's actually true. So we are anthropomorphizing, we are projecting our own consciousness onto this thing, and we are immediately imagining…
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If you are looking for self-hosted and sovereign AI tools - you've come to the right place. Making sense of the technology and concepts behind AI, breaking down the tools to gain more freedom and autonomy in our lives, and investigating how to avoid being trapped in centralized systems of control. If you want a sovereign future in the digital age, this is where we will build it. This is AI Unchained.
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