Dumbar, A Not so Good Smartbar App
Dumbar, A Not so Good Smartbar App
Saturday, August 26, 2023
Each every so often, I cease and assume: how dumb are these pseudo-AI LLMs, and do I actually need to smarten my life with them? I imply, I’ve used them for making drink recipes, and have had them kick out mediocre code for me, however I by no means actually felt like one of many cool youngsters™️.
Till now!
Introducing Dumbar, the dumb smartbar menu thingy utility that will help you get entry to these ever so cool LLMs which might be troublesome to make use of. Dumbar depends on Ollama to do the entire heavy lifting for you, however what did you anticipate, one thing referred to as “super-smartbar”?
Obtain it here.
Motivation
Moreover being marginally helpful generally, I needed one thing that will be a easy click on and permit me to rapidly change which mannequin I am utilizing between queries. I imply, I might most likely use a fast snack through the day, and question chef, or on the finish of the day possibly a pleasant cocktail. Or, I suppose I might use it to generate stunning prose (not this put up, clearly).
Context switching is usually a ache, so I figured one thing out there wherever might assist out fairly a bit.
So, uh?
It is fairly straightforward to make use of, merely choose the mannequin you need, enter some kind of phrases, and browse the wonderful pseudo-AI gibberish that’s spit out earlier than you:
What is the catch?
Two, really, first you should run and set up Ollama, and second you want an Apple Silicon mac. Hey, do not blame me! It is all Ollama runs out on the time of this put up. However, as quickly as Ollama helps extra environments, Dumbar will too.
Plus it is open supply! Go to its repo at https://github.com/JerrySievert/Dumbar
Get pleasure from.