Angelica Uses A MacBook -- Bless Her Heart -- January 26, 2025

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Updates

Later, 4:44 p.m. CT: link here.

Original Post

It took me less than 30 minutes to research this issue and post these thoughts on this subject overnight: link here. 

Because I did that, I now understand the note from Angelica (see below). Twenty-four hours ago, this would have been gibberish. But now I get it.

So, what do I get?

• LLM
• 7b

"7b" means "seven billion" and seven billion means "7 billion parameters."

Go back to the link above and "parameters" are briefly explained.

The more parameters that are used, the more computing power that is required: computing power (calculations) = calculations / time * time.

Just to tell you how "spooky" this is, or to put this in context:

• the chatbot that Angelica is using, uses 7 billion parameters to come up with an answer.
• to put that in perspective, in December 2024 DeepSeek-V3 was launched. It came with 671 billion parameters ....
• and then this: GPT-4: estimated to have 1.8 trillion parameters. 

If this doesn't convince you we are in the Sixth Industrial Revolution, nothing will.

By the way, who "owns" ChatGPT-4?

Can you invest in OpenAI?

Three outcomes regarding this initiative:

• it will wither and die on the vine (Musk's opinion)
• it won't die right away, maybe never, but it will take a long time to become a "thing"
• Monday, tomorrow, we see fireworks

By the way, those folks telling us that AI is still "not making any money for those who use it," are entirely wrong. This is like the horse-and-buggy driver seeing his first ICE and reaching this conclusion -- "the latter  (the ICE) is too noisy and too hard to start, and where does one get gasoline? The ICE will never be a thing."

From Angelica this morning:

And note: Angelica uses a MacBook. Bless her heart.