Podcast: Ai Unchained

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. I…

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,…

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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, understanding ourselves better than any…

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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 AI seamlessly into your digital workspace. What modular approaches and AI skills…

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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 decentralized hivemind. Fortunately, there’s mounting…

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#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 industry that may be rising…

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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, that it becomes too overwhelming to…

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#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 implications for the accessibility of coding…

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#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 of real-world, blue-collar issues. Explore how AI can empower farmers globally, breaking language…

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#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 fine-tune and leverage vectorized data…

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