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Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

#171

What's the best resource to compare OS LLMs (benchmarks, etc.)? With all the frequent releases, it's hard to keep up.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...

Looks like this table becomes less relevant, as there are models on the top who trained on test datasets and spoiled the leaderboard.

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

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How many tokens per second and what are the specs of the machine? My attempts at CPU only have been really slow.

In my experience with llama.cpp using the CPU (on Linux) is very slow compared to GPU or NPU with the same models as my M1 MacBook Pro using Metal (or maybe it's the shared memory allowing the speedup?). Even with 12 threads of my 5900X (I've tried using the full 24 SMT - that doesn't really seem to help) with the dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b.Q5_K_M model, my MacBook Pro is around 5-6x faster in terms of tokens per secon…

There must be something wrong, my 3060 does double the tokens per second as my M2 Mac (with Metal).

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

#174

Every thread like this is filled with comments about getting the AI to say something wrong/nonsense. It's incredibly dull conversation.

Maybe when AI gets good, we can have exciting conversations.

Ah, the day has come when we complain that our artificial humans aren't human enough. What would you do five years ago to get something that can do half the stuff LLMs can do?

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

#175

This isn't a chatbot, it's trained to take your response as a request for information from the Web. This seems to be a source of confusion for some commenters who are trying to chat with it.

How did you learn that? How could one be expected to learn that?

LLMs are like the wild west. Things are moving fast and no one is really documenting things for outsiders. The only way to learn these things is by using them. If you tried out Oobabooga, you would know that each LLM needs their own template instructions to understand its input and respond correctly. More recent tools, like Ollama, have these instructions included with the models. However, there are still different types of models available through Ollama. Some of them are suffixed with "instruct" which tells you that you can use them like a chat bot, whereas other "main" models only do completions and spit out gibberish if you ask them a question.

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

#179

I'm definitely perplexed but not in a good way. It's fast but... I asked it what it was and first it told me it was Google Lens. Then it told me some random stuff about android. I asked "But what are you though?" and got this: "A black hole is a region in space with extremely strong gravity, so powerful that not even light can escape it. They form from the remnants of large stars that die in supernova explosions. Key…

The 70b-chat model is definitely better:

> Can you write a poem in biblical style praising an aubergine?

  In the beginning, there was the aubergine,
  A fruit of the vine, a treasure so fine,
  In the realm of the earth, it stood tall and proud,
  A testament to the heavens, a voice so loud.
  
  Bearing the mark of the Creator's hand,
  A symbol of life, a promise so grand,
  The aubergine held the secrets of the soil,
  A repository of wisdom, a gem so precious and royal.
  
  Her skin, a tapestry of midnight hue,
  A dance of shadows, a harmony so true,
  In her heart, a gemstone of emerald green,
  A symphony of flavors, a divine sovereign.
etc, it went on for 10 more verses.

Re: Perplexity Labs Playground

#180

Seems like garbage. "My house is blue. What causes that?" gives a rambling about some residential area in South Korea as a response.

It's a playground to try out various free open source LLMs. You seem to have picked the default one. Try mixtral-8x7b-instruct. It gave the following answer:

>The color of your house is likely caused by the paint or material used on the exterior. Blue paint or blue-colored siding, shingles, or other building materials would cause your house to appear blue.

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