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Why do LLMs ‘decide’ to answer our questions? Why don’t they just ignore us?

As I'm learning more about neural nets it seems like there is nothing inherent within the net itself that requires an LLM to answer back when we ask it a question. It could simply be silent or ignore us. From what part of the neural net does the de…

Are there aspects of AI that can be just as effectively done on a DIY swarm of GPUs as on A/H100 servers?

I'm curious if there are certain and specific things like AI image generation, database analysis, etc that can be done commercially and effectively as you can on something like an A100, except by small scale people with lots of parallel GPUs like R…

Best AI method to analyze and query 1000’s of local .pdfs?

I have a very large collection of pdfs which are impossible to really catalog. I would like to be able to just set an AI loose on the entire collection and then be able to query the AI about specific key words, topics, numbers, and ideas and have it fi…