In this women and nonbinary workshop we'll be working with open-source AI to stage a small debate between Octavia Butler and other figures based on her famous essay "A Few Rules for Predicting the Future" that she wrote for Essence in 2000.
No worries if you missed the past 2 workshops! We meet you as you are, and you can start wherever you want and go at your own pace.
While we initially mostly as a group had the "ick" for AI in conflict resolution, it's being used in surprisingly helpful ways around the world, often to make discussions more inclusive!
"For generations, power brokers would gather behind doors to make decisions affecting people far and wide. Digital technologies can now allow the process to be relatively more inclusive.
We Continue our Open-Source AI workshop from last week with a focus on Vector Databases and RAG with inspiration from Octavia Butler, science fiction goddess.
We will focus of course on open-sourced models and also see if it’s not too hard to get an open-sourced generative AI model on a raspberry pi for hardware hacking projects.
We're using open-source models with the Ollama open-source framework
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Download Ollama
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At the command line run ollama (depends on which computer you have, open the ollama app on a mac and run a command on debian linux, will update)
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List the models you have downloaded to your computer
ollama list
Don't get your python libraries all dirty! Isolate them in the directory for this project
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate # On Windows, use .venv\Scripts\activate
The purpose of this Octavia Butler Open-Source AI meetup is to get our hands dirty with code and face-to-face interaction at the SudoRoom hackerspace in Oakland. AI is coming our way for all its good or bad qualities, but we should be proactive and try to figure out way to deal with it humanely.
- From the first session https://sudoroom.org/inspiration-from-goat-octavia-butler/