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A case for AI-pragmatism - leverage cheap compute while it's here
Make the most of cheap compute to do cool things.
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Using the hardware I already have to fine-tune Whisper (AMD isn't that bad)
What I learned fine-tuning speech models locally · Part 1
AMD makes compelling hardware and backs open source, but CUDA is still the default. Here's a little taste of how to change that.
DevelopmentAI
Fine-tuning Whisper models end to end with Listenr, good data, locally
Locally fine-tuning Whisper and ASR models with Listenr · Part 2
A walkthrough of how to fine-tune Whisper end to end with Listenr, fully locally.
DevelopmentAI
Making Firefox's AI Chatbot local-only with Lemonade
Firefox's AI chatbot sidebar can talk to a local Lemonade server. One CLI command and one about:config flip and your prompts never leave your machine.
AIResearch
Good speech data is the hard part
Locally fine-tuning Whisper and ASR models with Listenr · Part 1
Whisper is impressive and its vocabulary stopped in 2023. Fine-tuning fixes that, but only if you have high quality data, and getting that is the part nobody wants to do.