I just got Oobabooga running for the first time with Llama-2, and have Automatic1111, and ComfyUI running for images. I am curious about ML too but I don’t know where this start with that one yet.
For the uninitiated, all of these tools are running offline open source (or mostly) models.
I too find it hard to use anything other than GPT-4. It’s still so much better than other options even if the model has felt majorly nerfed compared to earlier releases.
Check out Wizard 30B Uncensored. IMO it’s about as good as NerfedGPT 4… except free and private.
I’m running it in GPT4All (CPU-based) with 64GB of RAM, and it runs pretty well. I’m not sure what you’d need if you were running it on GPU instead.