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I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot

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  1. petesergeant · · focus · HN ↗
    Jev has taught me the same lesson three times over now.

    When it first came out, I thought "this weekend, I'll do a little open-source Jev based on single-token prediction and the token logit output", but of course when it came to it, there were at least 5 that had already been done between me thinking that and getting around to it.

    So I wrote up[0] what other people had done, but wasn't happy with how weak the benchmarks were, but in the time between writing the first word and the last few, two excellent sets of benchmarks had been written, so I was able to incorporate those. I published the article, and one of the authors of one of the implementations commented that I'd beaten him to doing the write-up he'd wanted to.

    This morning I thought "huh, you could have some fun giving Jev a single letter or token at a time, turning it into a chatbot", but as the time of looking two people had already done this (and taken the gag further than I would have), and ... this is isn't either of the ones I'd found. I bet if you scratch the surface there already at leat 5.

    Time from idea to output has dropped off a fucking cliff.

    0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sgnt.ai&#x2F;p&#x2F;jev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sgnt.ai&#x2F;p&#x2F;jev&#x2F;

    1. jorl17 · · focus · HN ↗
      I had the same sort of thing going on ahah. But I was convinced some hoje must have already done it and I decided I’d research when I got home (I’m out today). Didn’t expect it to reach hacker news so soon, though!!
      1. digilypse · · focus · HN ↗
        I tried this too but it’s literally addressed in their docs already so I don’t think it’s much of a discovery

        <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.typesafe.ai&#x2F;model-jaggedness&#x2F;jev-1.13#generation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.typesafe.ai&#x2F;model-jaggedness&#x2F;jev-1.13#generatio...

        1. sixhobbits · · focus · HN ↗
          I also did it and thought I was smart and they told me it&#x27;s a right of passage because everyone does it and thinks they&#x27;re the first
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