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Old CPU / No GPU / Ollama Language Model?

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    joseph
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    I tried something like this in my 14 year old CPU 🙂 It's still writing out the joke . I also have only 16GB RAM to give.

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      Sadly there's currently no substitute for RAM or VRAM.
      My Mac silicon chip laptop does an ok-ish job with 24Gb RAM (integrated CPU/GPU memory model)
      But mostly I just accept defeat and use Ollama Cloud models (or Venice T2EE cloud models).

      Indie app dev, huge fan of Cloudron PaaS, scratching my itches : communityapps.appx.uk

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      • J joseph

        I tried something like this in my 14 year old CPU 🙂 It's still writing out the joke . I also have only 16GB RAM to give.

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        @joseph

        Hey, I hope it tells you that joke some day, Joseph! :🤡

        In the meanwhile, here is one it told me:

        Why did the chicken cross the playground? 🐔

        To get to the other slide! 🤣

        It is pretty "low-VRAM" humour!

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          There's a gemma3 270m instruct model that is fast, but it's also not very smart

          Conscious tech

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          • robiR robi

            There's a gemma3 270m instruct model that is fast, but it's also not very smart

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            @robi Can it tell jokes?

            I had to find out!
            You be the judge:

            Tell us a quick joke about a chicken

            Why don't chicken birds fly? 🐔
            Because they are too small.

            🤣

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              @robi Can it tell jokes?

              I had to find out!
              You be the judge:

              Tell us a quick joke about a chicken

              Why don't chicken birds fly? 🐔
              Because they are too small.

              🤣

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              @LoudLemur of course it can and at 200 tok/sec no less.

              It's just makes a lot of mistakes. Had trouble tool calling and web access

              Conscious tech

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                @LoudLemur of course it can and at 200 tok/sec no less.

                It's just makes a lot of mistakes. Had trouble tool calling and web access

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                @robi said:

                200 tok/sec no less

                nice!

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                  Yes, compare it to LFM2.5-270M and 350M which are being geared for on phone inference. The prompts you are used to need to change though and be much more explicit so they don't feel so dumb.

                  Conscious tech

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                  • J joseph

                    I tried something like this in my 14 year old CPU 🙂 It's still writing out the joke . I also have only 16GB RAM to give.

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                    @joseph Thanks for this story. We asked a smallish model (Qwen 9B) running on a lot of VRAM to tell us a joke.

                    Qwen didn't tell us a joke, it just started thinking about which chicken joke to tell us. 🐔

                    We looked at its thinking and it had created and considered over 200 chicken jokes before we decided the best thing to do was ... not wait for it!

                    We wish we had left it running to find out which joke it would have eventually chosen for us!

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                      Why did the AI engine search for a chicken joke ?

                      Because it was looking for poultry in motion! 🐔

                      Indie app dev, huge fan of Cloudron PaaS, scratching my itches : communityapps.appx.uk

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                        Why did the AI engine search for a chicken joke ?

                        Because it was looking for poultry in motion! 🐔

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                        @timconsidine 🤠

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                          @andreasdueren Thank you for Hermes! It is a great choice for us and it also tells a funny chicken joke!

                          hermes-4.3-36b

                          Sure! Here's a clucktastic one:

                          Why did the chicken join a band?

                          To learn how to make some "eggcellent" beats! 🐔🎸

                          (If you want more, just say the word!)

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