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big_ol_tender t1_jc4lrqf wrote

This makes me depressed because I’ve been working with the llama-index project and I feel like these huge companies are going to take my ball away 😢. They just have too many resources to build stuff.

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Hostilis_ t1_jc4rnu1 wrote

Unfortunately I think, at least for now, that's just the way it is. This is why I personally focus on hardware architectures / acceleration for machine learning and biologically plausible deep learning. Ideas tend to matter more than compute resources in these domains.

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127-0-0-1_1 t1_jc4umjb wrote

How are they going to take your ball away? By having a nicer ball?

Of course you, alone, is going to produce worse products than a bunch of postdoctorates with the budget of a small nation state.

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sebzim4500 t1_jc6jye3 wrote

The company doesn't always win, sometimes the open source product is simply better. See Stable Diffusion vs DALL-E, or linux vs windows server, or lichess vs chess.com, etc.

Of course that doesn't mean it will be used more, but that isn't the point.

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apluskale t1_jc6zl9r wrote

You have to remember that Dall-E is worse only because there's little interest and money in it. Text is much more useful/hyped compared to images.

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googler_ooeric t1_jc7q62q wrote

i'd say it depends, DALL-E is better at photorealistic stuff and stability from my experience, but Stable Diffusion is way more versatile and can actually replicate famous IPs

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Necessary_Ad_9800 t1_jc5x92i wrote

Yea they are years ahead but don’t you think the open source community will be able to make something useful given enough time?

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xKraazY t1_jc79i02 wrote

Don't use external libraries because they abstract important concepts (talking about langchain and llama-index). They're great for starting out, but the rate at which everything is moving, these libraries become obsolete in 2-3 months.

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baffo32 t1_jc8jgd4 wrote

i’m thinking, with practice and research, these abstractions could be done in dynamic ways that can pivot and diversify to new norms

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baffo32 t1_jc8j4w0 wrote

thoughts: each approach has generally something unique that can make it useful, and approaches usually have ways in which they can merge

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