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Deozaan:
I don't really have the budget for upgrading my PC. Maybe I should get a $15 microcontroller and play around with TinyML.

But that's not really an LLM, so I guess I'm better off just accessing some free tier of ChatGPT.

Shades:
Don't stare yourself too blind on ChatGPT, because it isn't the "all-in-one" solution for everyone or every use-case.

So here are some (mainstream) alternatives:
- ChatGPT (pretty much on par with Gemini for my use-cases).
- PHind (did well with Powershell requests and Oracle requests I made).
- v0 (relatively new player, that looks promising. Bit of a nag about getting a subscription with them, but that is it).
- Gemini (pretty much on par with ChatGPT for my use-cases).
- CoPilot (no experience with, besides unconsciously activating it by misclicking in the Edge browser).

- Replicate (site that lets you try out many different models, some free, some at costs).

Deozaan:
I forgot to thank you once again for being so helpful.

So thanks! I had no idea about most of those. I'll check them out. :Thmbsup:

KynloStephen66515:
For API Usage:
Mistral have an extremely generous free tier (1 billion tokens per month, 500,000/minute)
Gemini is free with a huge context window (2 million on pro, 1 million on flash models)
Groq (not Grok) is also free (but has heavy usage limits that might not suit everybody, but has EXTREMELY fast output speed)

Also try OpenWebUI, as it's capable of "plugging in" any model from the above list.  Another really good web-ui with a lot of extra features, that can also run locally, is LobeChat (They also have a hosted version)


I don't wanna shamelessly promote the company I work for (We have a very generous free tier for our VSCode/JetBrains/WebUI, AI coding assistant) so if you wanna know about that, drop me a DM here or discord and I'll let ya know (and can hook you up with a month of free Pro tier, too).

Deozaan:
Thanks Kynlo. While I was adding these to my bookmarks, I decided to try out LobeChat's hosted version. It went something like this (highly paraphrased):


Q: Does the onboard LED of the Raspberry Pi Pico W support PWM to adjust its brightness?

A: Yes, it does.

Q: Can you show me some example code that will fade the LED?

A: This code will do that for you.

[ 15 minutes trying to get the code to work ]

Q: The code isn't working. What might be wrong?

A: Try these troubleshooting steps.

[ 15 minutes trying all the troubleshooting steps ]

Q: Are you absolutely sure the onboard LED supports PWM?

A: My apologies. The onboard LED does not support PWM.

Q: Can you show me example code to simulate PWM to adjust the LED's brightness in software rather than hardware?

A: This code will do that for you.

[ It works! ]

Pretty helpful when it doesn't lead you on a wild goose chase with wrong information.


I'm surprised there hasn't been a movie made yet about a group of people with a robot/AI companion who all end up stuck in a cavern and they ask the robot/AI
to help them find a way out and it unintentionally states incorrect information as fact and based on that information (and future queries to the robot/AI that don't challenge the initial assumption) the humans travel through a treacherous path where many people are injured or die until finally someone asks "Are you sure this is the best course of action?" and then the robot/AI says "My apologies. We can just take the ladder near where we started." ;D

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