Mark Bridgett: Demystifying local & specialized AI models

In this podcast, we're joined by Mark Bridgett, a DevOps engineer and lifelong tech enthusiast who runs local AI models on his home PC setup. Mark has some amazing insights and we both learned so much from our chat.We discovered, among other things, the surprising ease of running your own AI as we discussed the various types of AI models, their significance, and how they can aid you in specialised tasks like code generation.Listen to the podcast to learn more about local AI installs, specialised AIs, and so much more…Tools mentioned:

• ChatGPT: The ubiquitous chatbot from OpenAI
• Llama: An open-source AI platform from Meta
• Grok-1: Large language model from X
• StarCoder: Large language model for code from Hugging Face
• Gemma: Lightweight language model from Google
• Copilot: Chatbot from Microsoft