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Ask HN: Can I download GPT / ChatGPT to my desktop?

25 pointsby AHappyCamperover 2 years ago
I would love to be able to run GPT &#x2F; ChatGPT on my desktop and remove some of the length limits on text.<p>How can I do that, and where can I download it from?

12 comments

5e92cb50239222bover 2 years ago
OpenAI is &#x27;open&#x27; in the name only, so no. I don&#x27;t think they have any plans of opening full access to the public either, considering that their previous model (that ChatGPT builds upon) was sold to Microsoft for exclusive use:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;GPT-3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;GPT-3</a>
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turkeygizzardover 2 years ago
I&#x27;m pretty sure the GPT model is huge and does not fit on any conventional GPU. Even if they open-sourced the weights, I don&#x27;t think most people would be running it at home.<p>Also regarding the text limits, AFAIK, there&#x27;s just an inherent limit in the architecture. Transformers are trained on finite-length sequences (I think their latest uses 4096 tokens). I have been trying to understand how ChatGPT seems to be able to manage context&#x2F;understanding beyond this window length
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htnsover 2 years ago
I don&#x27;t much follow AI news beyond what I randomly happen to see on HN, but this might still be the largest open source model: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yandex&#x2F;YaLM-100B">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yandex&#x2F;YaLM-100B</a> . There&#x27;s discussion of it here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;MachineLearning&#x2F;comments&#x2F;vpn0r1&#x2F;d_has_anyone_got_yalm100b_to_run&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;MachineLearning&#x2F;comments&#x2F;vpn0r1&#x2F;d_h...</a> - at the bottom of that page is a comment from someone who actually ran it in the cloud.
Sharlinover 2 years ago
Even if it were freely available, there&#x27;s no way to run GPT3 or ChatGPT on any existing desktop hardware. The exact hardware requirements aren&#x27;t public either (yes, very &quot;open&quot;) but a full 175-billion-parameter GPT3 instance requires hundreds of gigabytes of GPU memory, and even though ChatGPT is &quot;smaller and better&quot;, when it comes to conversational dialogue, there&#x27;s no way to fit it in current consumer hardware.
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navjack27over 2 years ago
You can do gpt-j<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;navjack&#x2F;32197772df1c0a8dbb8628676bc4e25a" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;navjack&#x2F;32197772df1c0a8dbb8628676bc4...</a><p>I mean yeah after you set it up like this you still have to prompt engineer to get it to behave like a chat but I mean it&#x27;s better than GPT - 2
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fred967over 2 years ago
You can download his ancestor here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;winworldpc.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;dr-sbaitso&#x2F;2x" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;winworldpc.com&#x2F;product&#x2F;dr-sbaitso&#x2F;2x</a>
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mellosoulsover 2 years ago
It&#x27;s not possible post GPT2 for the reasons given by others.<p>Open communities with potential for involving yourself include Hugging Face and EleutherAI, the former perhaps more accessible, the latter an active Discord.<p>It&#x27;s been a while since I spent time looking at them, I&#x27;m not sure if there is something you can easily get up and running with.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eleuther.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eleuther.ai&#x2F;</a>
dragonwriterover 2 years ago
There are non-OpenAI models based on the same GPT paper as the OpenAI GPT-series, e.g., GPT-NeoX [0], GPT-J, etc., that are actually Open Source, unlike OpenAI which is “open” only in the sense of “we might let you use it, either as a free preview or a paid service”.<p>You probably won&#x27;t be able to run (or especially train) them on typical desktops, though.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eleuther.ai&#x2F;projects&#x2F;gpt-neox&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eleuther.ai&#x2F;projects&#x2F;gpt-neox&#x2F;</a>
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chamwislothe2ndover 2 years ago
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bigscience-workshop&#x2F;petals">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bigscience-workshop&#x2F;petals</a><p>Since my other account is shadow banned for some unexplained reason, I just wanted to mention the petal project. It&#x27;s an attempt to bittorrent style distribute the load of running these large models. Good luck!
trilbyglensover 2 years ago
My feeling is that even if it were available to download, the compute requirements to run it at production speeds would likely be blistering.
PlotCitizenover 2 years ago
It’s not possible currently but there’s another story on the HN front page with an open source alternative which I haven’t tried
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luckyme123over 2 years ago
Luckily, no. Otherwise you (others) could hack the safeties and ask it how to cheaply kill a lot of people or so .. better not make bad people too intelligent! (Obviously not talking about you)
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