Fine-Tuning Large Language Models with LoRA: A Practical Guide

Large language models (LLMs) are very popular these days. Most likely you have used tools such as ChatGPT or Claude. They are great, for many different tasks. But what they are not good at is working with your own, private data. Wouldn’t it be great if you could chat with a large language model about… Continue reading Fine-Tuning Large Language Models with LoRA: A Practical Guide

The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 19) – Automate new Content

It has been a while since we touched our micro business, https://www.usmalbilder.ch. What started as a simple family project has helped me a lot in better understanding the latest AI technology and was a great motivator to try out ideas. Initially, we have been using simple ChatGPT to help us with coding and generating text… Continue reading The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 19) – Automate new Content

The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 18) – Stable Diffusion and Ads

Ads Discovering my first ad on my website brought an unexpected sense of joy. Probably because it’s our own site, and these ads are here to help cover hosting costs. I’ve lost count of how many attempts I made to activate ads on www.usmalbilder.ch, but the latest one finally hit the mark. The only tweak… Continue reading The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 18) – Stable Diffusion and Ads

The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 17) – Where we are and trying Stable Diffusion

Busy times You may have noticed that some time has passed since my last update on our micro business www.usmalbilder.ch. There were just so many things going on and the project was live, so I had to reprioritize some topics. How does it go? It is already a bit late but I have been thinking… Continue reading The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 17) – Where we are and trying Stable Diffusion

Run LLMs yourself

I was trying to run Llama2 recently on my desktop PC. I don’t think it can be considered state of the art anymore, but the machine still has a decent graphics card (GTX 1080) and 16 GB of RAM. Read on to learn how the initial approach failed and I found a solution running the… Continue reading Run LLMs yourself

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The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 16) – Good News on SEO

Just a super short update! Our latest changes to www.usmalbilder.ch resulted in successful indexing of all our coloring pages! When someone is searching for a coloring picture, there is now a chance they land on our website. Le’ts try this out on Google! Cool, the third result is from usmalbilder.ch! What now? We have now… Continue reading The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 16) – Good News on SEO

Overview of LLMs (from and for software engineers)

LLM Overview  This blog post provides an overview of LLMs (large language models), which are a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that are trained on massive amounts of text data. LLMs are currently being discussed extensively, as they have the potential to revolutionize the way we interact with computers. Most of us have heard or played… Continue reading Overview of LLMs (from and for software engineers)

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The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 15) – Using AI Models

So far, we have been using AI services like ChatGPT and Midjourney to help us with content creation. But there is still a lot of manual work involved in adding new coloring pages: We don’t mind the work involved using Midjourney. It’s OK to review the generated images, maybe refine them and then select the… Continue reading The Future is Here: Exploring the Possibilities of Doing Business with AI (Part 15) – Using AI Models