Such a missed opportunity to call it CUDA Libre...
Worse, some functions are prefixed libreCu which in Portuguese means "free ass hole".
LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime
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Re: LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime
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If you use all the GPTs enough - you'll see them clear as day... And by saying "Tell us how you really feel" reveals, you may not have thought of The Implications of the current state of AI. (I can give you a concrete example of the WEF guardrails: I have a LBB of some high profile names that are all related around a specific person, then I wanted to see how they were related to one another from a publicly available…
I feel like thats a bit too hard of an idea to keep hidden considering the number of engineers and people who worked on this project. I would assume it's some combination of how models are not good at knowing specific people or companies very well since they use patterns for their output and the model being instructed to not allow doxing and harassment. Not to mention that the rich and powerful you imply are not tech…
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here is the markdown formatting code for your text: *Warning: Deep Rabbit Hole Info Ahead!* Please ignore if the following triggers you in any sense... > Take on the archetype of the best corporate counsel and behavioral psychologist - as a profiler for the NSA regarding cyber security and crypto concerns. > With this as your discernment lattice - describe Sam Altman in your Field's Dossier given what you understand…
I dont want to 'pollute' HN with my (its all real and well researched and informed) 'conspiracy' theories -- but I've been keeping receipts folks. If youre on HN, involved in Tech to any degree of seriousness, and dont ask yourself the hard alignment/entanglement questions, You're Holding It Wrong. --- Altman is on the WEF roster, is all in on AI war stuff, in bed with Power MIC. If people were fleeing from the compa…
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Hear hear. Yes practically if you need to run a workload on a closed source system or if that’s your only option to get the performance then you have to do what you have to do. But in the long run open source wins because once an open source alternative exists it is just the better option. As a bonus, with open source platforms you are much less subject to whims of company licensing. If tomorrow Nvidia decided to cha…
> But in the long run open source wins because once an open source alternative exists it is just the better option. This is just wishful thinking. Anything close to real professional use, not related to IT, and closed source is king: office work, CAD, video editing, music production, and those domains immediately came to mind. Nowhere there open source can seriously challenge commercial, closed sourced competitors. Y…
Re: LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
I dont want to 'pollute' HN with my (its all real and well researched and informed) 'conspiracy' theories -- but I've been keeping receipts folks. If youre on HN, involved in Tech to any degree of seriousness, and dont ask yourself the hard alignment/entanglement questions, You're Holding It Wrong. --- Altman is on the WEF roster, is all in on AI war stuff, in bed with Power MIC. If people were fleeing from the compa…
By malevolent you mean the AI systems are designed to make profit for its owners and not to benefit humanity or whatever?
HN isnt the platform to go deep on it, but im a fairly well evolved techno-conspiratist - and I've (as I jokingly stated) "forrest Gump'd" around a lot of silicon valley history..
And in my use daily of attempting to build what should be a simple thing with all the inputs of the GPTs, and paid versions - I am convinced that when youre using the tools in a meaningful manner which is leading in certain directions - there are triggers, and I think even humans, that get invloved.
On multiple occassions both on claude (paid) and gpt (paid) - ive had them strip out code AS ITS BEING GENERATED and tell me that its being stripped out for violations/concerns - but it just flashes the message, doesnt tell you which code, what violations, etc.
It lies, it ignores direct stements, ignores context in uploaded files, violates memory boundaries, and maliciously removes previously approved snippets of code/features etc.
I have managed exceptional devops teams, developers, PHDs even. I know whats up.
These bots are designed to edge, and consume your use of them.
THey actively, but very insipidly, thwart certain things.
Re: LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime
#116I think the point of open cuda is to run it on non NVIDIA gpus. Once you have to buy NVIDIA gpus what’s the point. If we had true you competition I think it would be far easier to buy devices with more vram and thus we might be able to run llama 405b someday locally. Once you already bought the NVIDIA cards what’s the point
Anyway I wonder why amd never challenged nvidia on that market... It smells a bit like amd and nvidia secretly agreed to not compete against each other.
Opencl exists but is abandoned.
Re: LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime
#117Re: LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime
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Like anything open source it allows you to know and see exactly what your machine is doing. I don’t want to speculate too much but I remember there being discussions around whether or not nvidia could embed licensing checks and such at the firmware level.
> licensing checks and such at the firmware level. Could you imaging an age where the NVIDIA firmware does LLM/AI/GPU license checking before it does operations on your vectors? (Hello Oracle on SUN e650, My old Friend) ((Worse would be a DRM check against deep-faking or other Globalist WEF Guardrails)) ((oracle had(has) an age olde function where if you bought a license for a single proc and threw it inot a dual pro…
On VMware they extended this to every CPU in the cluster.
A gigantic shower of absolute grifters.
Re: LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime
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Nobody is forcing you to buy a computer. Nobody is forcing you to live under a roof. Nobody is forcing you to eat.
Sorry for the harsh comment. I just found it highly unlikely that Nvidia would change its ways due to this, and I don't really see how we're being "squeezed". Nvidia are delivering amazing products (as are AMD), and it is not going to be any cheaper this way. Building this kind of hardware is not something a hacker can do over the weekend.
Re: LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime
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> But in the long run open source wins because once an open source alternative exists it is just the better option. This is just wishful thinking. Anything close to real professional use, not related to IT, and closed source is king: office work, CAD, video editing, music production, and those domains immediately came to mind. Nowhere there open source can seriously challenge commercial, closed sourced competitors. Y…
What if Linux itself? The plethora of open programming languages? Tools like OpenSSH? Commercial, closed source products generally benefit from a monopoly within a specific problem domain or some kind of regulatory capture. I don’t think that means an open source alternative isn’t desirable or viable, just that competing in those contexts is much more difficult without some serious investment—be it political, monetar…
In general you confirmed my point by saying that competing in domains is much more difficult. And open source isn’t a key to a win.