Cheapskate's Homebrew AI Lab

Old Stories The computer hardware used to be more playful and worth tinkering. My favorate platfom from a decade ago, Sandy Bridge on LGA 1155, can still be powerful even today. Back in the days, I used to repair people’s electronics for free. Because of that, I also received a lots of spares and e-waste in exchange. One of the best was a LGA 1155 motherboard with i5-2300 on it. Then, I bought a cheap E3-1245 and GTX 750 Ti to make it a gaming rig. I played a lot of games on that, such as Dark Souls series and Metro series. Before it was sold, last games I played on this build was Metro Exodus and Elden Ring. ...

October 23, 2023 · 19 min · Jun

Cheapskate's Stable Diffusion Server

No DALL-E, No Midjourney and No Colab This is a guide showing how to build your own stable diffusion server on what you already have or cheap used hardwares. It may not satisfy for a serious production use but pretty viable for learning, testing or casual use. Before we start, here’s some comments on OpenAI: The history of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, which Elon Musk helped found before parting ways and criticizing OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit Will ChatGPT be open source? ChatGPT, how did you get here? It was a long journey through open source AI When big AI labs refuse to open source their models, the community steps in Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) The TRUTH about OpenAI I have been using ChatGPT and its API regulary. Since my last post, the API has been upgraded to gpt-3.5-turbo which broke my program and gpt-4 seems coming up soon. Therefore, I may not fix my code proactively. ...

March 28, 2023 · 10 min · Jun

Bypassing ChatGPT's Safeguard and Easiest Way to use API

The latest news updated on waylaidwanderer’s repo says: 2023-02-15 The method we were using to access the ChatGPT raw models has been patched, unfortunately. Therefore, the party is over. It was fun to play with those leaked models such as text-davinci-002-render, text-chat-davinci-002-20221122, and text-chat-davinci-002-sh-alpha-aoruigiofdj83. They’re not as good as the official model text-davinci-003 after all as my previous post said. Why use API instead of the Ordinary Way After OpenAI fired up their paid subscription for ChatGPT, availability issue like response error, rate limit and throttling become more often. ...

February 16, 2023 · 6 min · Jun

Playing with Different GPT-3 and ChatGPT models

The Original Flavors In OpenAI’s documentation there are 4 models under GPT-3 category and 2 coding models. They cost from $0.02 to $0.0004 per 1k tokens as the base model and the fine-tuned versions cost even more. text-davinci-003 text-curie-001 text-babbage-001 text-ada-001 code-davinci-002 code-cushman-001 The playground can test them all using the web interface. Let’s see how good they are comparing to the free ChatGPT. To ChatGPT webpage: Who is Paul Graham? Paul Graham is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and investor. He is best known as the co-founder of the startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator. ...

February 13, 2023 · 4 min · Jun