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I don’t think anyone thinks the turing “test” implies machine thinking anymore. Check out the philosophers publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NHcVwwMAAAAJ

There’s some in my opinion very significant open issues in the philosophy of ethics and consciousness that make AI ethics an important area of research.

license for software whose source code is openly available for anyone to view, use, modify, and share

I don’t have any familiarity with using this kind of software, but I looked through the git repo of SavaPage. It looks like it has been actively developed for the past few years, which is a great sign, but it looks like almost all commits are done by one user. The issue tracker is also a little meager, with just one open issue, potentially pointing to a very small user base. Adoption heavily depends on as long as that one person keeps maintaining the project.

Honestly, you’re a few months late to the whole buying GPUs for local llms party, so expect exorbitant prices even for older cards

The name of the game is vram. For the most part, more is better. If you can get your hands on multiple matching (same model) 24gb or higher cards (within price range), you’re golden.

Going for more than 2 gpus can become challenging with motherboard pcie slot heights, so make sure either your cards aren’t too tall or you have widely spaced out pcie slots.

For inference, speed (tokens/second) is limited by memory bandwidth. Go for faster bandwidth memory cards if you can afford it (e.g. GDDR6 will be faster than GDDR5).

Also with multi gpus you will need an adequate power supply, and a large enough case.

If you want to be a bit eccentric and load huge models, you can also go the CPU route and fill up a motherboard with 256 GB ram, because then you’re in the several hundred B param model territory, which could, depending on your use case, be better than having faster inference on smaller/quantized models. Even then, DDR5 with high MHz is still way slower than gpus.

I suggest looking at llm arena leaderboards filtered by open weight models. It offers benchmarks at a very complete and statistically detailed level for models, and usually is quite up to date when new models come out. The new Gemma that just came out might be the best for 1x GPU, and if you have a bunch of vram check out the larger Chinese models

who coulda guessed support of a ethnic nationalist, apartheid state was unpopular

He was a cyber pimp, exploiting sex workers online by stealing from their earnings. He also is one of the largest donors to the pro israeli lobby in the US