STOP. Using AI Right now
By PewDiePie
Summary
## Key takeaways - **Protein Folding for Science**: Instead of renting out computing power for crypto, PewDiePie uses his multi-GPU setup for protein folding simulations, contributing to scientific research for understanding diseases. [02:09] - **AI Art is Lame**: PewDiePie believes AI-generated art looks bad and is often ripped off from original artists, stating he prefers to look up the original artist instead. [07:00] - **Self-Hosting AI is Private**: The biggest advantage of self-hosting AI is privacy, as cloud-based AIs collect and train on user data even after chats are deleted, unlike local, private models. [17:04] - **AI Needs Tools, Not Just Power**: You don't need a beast computer to run AI effectively; the key is providing the right toolset, like search and RAG capabilities, to smaller, community-made models. [23:25] - **AI Council for Decisions**: PewDiePie created a 'council' of eight AI instances with different personalities to democratically vote and provide the best answers, though he had to 'kill' underperforming members. [19:54]
Topics Covered
- Maxing Out Computer Hardware is an Obsession
- Protein Folding Simulations Are Underrated
- Self-Hosting AI is About Privacy, Not Power
- AI Councils: A Democratic, Yet Ruthless, Process
- Smaller AI Models with Search are Powerful Tools
Full Transcript
I have a confession to make. I bifocated
again.
And I know what you're thinking. Felix,
did you split your PCIe lane so you can
fit two GPUs again? Yes. But so what?
Because what I didn't say in my last
video. When I got the BIOS from the
random stranger online so I could buy
fur cake, what I didn't say was all the
lanes were bifurcatable. I can bifurcate
as many times as I want. It's legal. I
bifurcated again. Nine GPUs for mortal
men doomed to die.
>> Just one more.
One more.
>> 10 GPUs. So, what am I going to do with
all this space? I can fit my whole foot
in there. What am I going to do? A foot
holder? I had to do it. I had to do I
had to I had to do it, man. Surely you
will understand. Now, I know what you're
thinking again. Felix, what are you
going to do with all of that? Six
dimensions. I am going to play Minecraft
in six dimensions. I realized that I
have a tendency and maybe you can relate
to this as well of setting a goal
without any regard for is this a good
idea?
Do I really want to do this? What is the
point of doing this? I just really
wanted to max out my computer and that
became like a weird obsession. But here
I am and I finished my computer because
I know what you're thinking. Felix, did
you add a 4090? Those run on 475 watts.
Are you crazy? You can't do that. You
don't have that kind of power
consumption. I can b Sorry. I can
undervolt it, you stupid [ __ ] The
performance is negligible the last
couple percentages. It's fine. Now that
we got all that out of the way, what
have I actually been doing with this
computer? I've been doing protein
folding simulations. That's right. I
knew I could rent out my computing power
and [music] make money that way,
but that's for shablo. Protein folding
simulation is where it's at. Basically,
scientists needs to run these protein
simulations for their studies. It helps
them better understand different
diseases, but it takes a lot of
computing power. So, you or me can help
doing that and spreading that out. So
basically having like a mini data
center, it can actually make a big uh a
big help. So I've been running that
overnight whenever I can and it's been
really fun to climb the leaderboards.
That's really all I care about. Charity
leaderboards, we're going [laughter]
obviously I'm just joking. But it sound,
first of all, I [music] get it. It
sounds like a scam. It sounds like I'm
patting myself on the back while someone
is getting rich off crypto. That's not
the case. I've looked into this. It is
100% legit and it's been around for a
very long time. I just never heard about
it for some reason. It seems like maybe
you think they're paying me or
something, but I genuinely just think
this is very cool. And get the best
part. I've made a team so you guys can
join in. You don't need a beast computer
to do this. And if anything, it really
shows how a lot of people come together.
You can make a big difference. And it's
a very cool flex to say that your
computer have supported cancer research
or Alzheimer's and other diseases. So,
please consider joining the team team
per and get this, the team number that
was randomly generated. You're never
going to guess it, [laughter]
okay? 10 66
966.
God gave us that number. God gave us
that number. Grab your CPU and GPU and
let's fold protein together. If you have
some time later today, spend 30 minutes
and set it up. I've been aiming for top
01%. Let's get folding.
>> Me and Marcia have been planning to go
to Sweden next month. And there's so
much involved with tickets and where to
stay and then it's a 12-hour flight back
to Sweden even though it's direct now,
which is amazing. But the worst part is
trying to find out how do I get
internet. You cannot travel abroad
without internet. That's a terrible
idea. I've done it. Don't do it. And I
always dreaded it because signing up to
rent the Wi-Fi after a long flight is
the least thing you want to do. Having
to worry about when you land, okay,
where can I buy an e sim or where can I
buy an actual sim is a terrible
solution. Luckily, there is s is one of
the most budget friendly options for an
electronic sim. I use it every time I
travel and it's genuinely the best
product ever. They should be paying me.
Oh, wait. They are paying me. I'm just
kidding. I've already signed up. I put
in how much data I need. I will just
land and it will just work. I don't have
to think about it anymore. And that's
how it should be because there's so much
to think about when you're traveling. So
I love SY. It removes a huge piece of
stress when I'm traveling. And I met a
lot of you guys here in Japan that said,
"Oh, I use SY when I traveled here." And
it worked really well. So certifiably
works well in Japan. They keep
increasing countries, but there's
already a ton to pick from. As an online
privacy respecting individual, since
this is under the Nord company, they
have all these privacy respecting
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because I don't really trust all these
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off. Another thing I wanted to do with
this computer was to run AI. If you have
this many GPUs, you at least got to try
running AI on it. And I'm not going to
lie, it became my next big I have to max
out. What's the biggest model of AI that
I can run on this computer? That's what
I wanted to find out. And it turns out
it's complicated. [laughter]
You know, this computer costs 20,000
roughly [music] in terms of running AI,
that's relatively cheap. That's what I
was trying to say because the cost for
uh for running AI is just like I can't
it goes from here to
No, I can't make that joke. The cost for
running AI is just bonkers. is stupid.
Okay, so what AI did I run? First, we
have to make some things crystal clear.
I do not f with image generation or
video generation. I don't really have
that strong of opinion about it, but all
the drawing nerds supported me in my
drawing video, so I stand by the drawing
nerds as a fellow drawing nerd myself. I
genuinely think AI art looks ass. It
looks bad. You can tell immediately it's
AI generated. And the art that does look
cool has [music] been straight up ripped
off from another artist. So why not just
look up the artist? [laughter]
I don't get it. I can see it being used
for the lowest stock image or piece of a
background or something, but more than
that, I just think it's lame. Second of
all, I do feel like I'm in a weird place
with this because I'm going to yap about
AI here, and I hate people yapping about
AI. I genuinely can't stand it. Seeing
AI everywhere is so irritating to me. I
went to a hotel last month and they were
like, "We have AI generation integrated
in the hotel room." I'm like, "Great,
stop." [laughter]
Even here on YouTube, the AI features
are so useless. It's just become the hot
next buzzword and it's very annoying.
But on the other hand, the people that
just hate AI are equally centrist take.
I mean, they're all bad. And I'm I'm
just kidding. But it's like I don't know
if you heard Markiplier got cancelled
because he used AI. Please don't please
don't cancel me. Please. If anyone
watches Markiplier, click away the video
right now. [laughter]
It's not going to be good. No. But from
trying to self-host AI, I realize just
how much misinformation there is about
AI, especially with cuz I didn't know
anything about it. So, without further
ado, what model can I run on this thing?
Well, I asked AI itself. I went straight
to the source. I was like, "What model
can I run?" It [music] goes, "Bro, I got
you Llama 70B." And I was like, "Cool.
It runs. It's not bad, but I didn't
really go like I want to go, you know, I
want to feel like, wo, look at the beast
computer, Beast AI." I didn't get that
opinion. If anything, I was like, I that
was surprisingly easy. I I think I can
run this on four GPUs. Actually, lo and
behold, it runs on four GPUs. I have not
maxed out at all. What am I going to do?
Have them talk to each other? Then I get
it running on two GPUs. What am I going
to do with that? I give them a little
tea party. No, I want to
boom.
I want TO MAX OUT. CAN A GUY max out?
It's the fattest stack of AI I can slap
on this thing cuz it ain't 70, I tell
you. So, I math the math. I was like 120
billion. For those of you who don't
know, every model comes in uh different
sizes. Bigger model generally means
better, but not at all a rule. Don't
listen to that. But I knew the biggest
model I can run was 120 billion
parameters. 120B doesn't exist. Nothing.
Nada. And I know what you're thinking,
Felix, there is. Yes, because as I was
complaining about it, Open AI chat
finally lived to their name and released
an open- source model like everyone else
has already done. [laughter]
And guess what?
120 billion parameters. I couldn't
believe it. The timing was just insane.
And I ran it and I WAS LIKE, I I did the
thing. I I was like, it feels exactly
like Chad GPT, but it's fast as
it's so fast. I can't read that fast.
[music] Can you read that fast? It's
crazy. So, I was like, I did it. I maxed
out, but I think I can get it running on
four GPUs. You see, to deploy AI, I use
VLM. You can do different things. I use
VLM, which means I have to stare at the
VLM loading [music] screen. Running AI,
everyone's hardware is going to be
different. and differently optimized.
So, you need to have like a little
cookbook that you set of different
parameters before you fire off that
thing. And it takes a while for it to
load up. And I've been staring at that
loading for too long. I swear I
understand what the incomprehensible
reading text means without being able to
read it. That will never run. But then
when it does run, it's like I go,
[laughter] "Sorry, I need to stop doing
that." But I realized I could probably
run this uh model on four GPUs. Lo and
behold, Chad OS runs on four GPUs. I'm
[music] like, I should be happy, right?
But I'm not because I WANT TO MAX OUT.
CAN A GUY just max out? Is that too much
to ask? So, if you math the math, I
should be able to run a 240 billion
parameter model. I should, and you know
what? There is, Gwen, 245B.
But there's two problems. Number one, I
tried it and it never [ __ ] runs.
Number two, even if I do get it running,
I don't have enough memory to actually
use it. I could maybe fart at it at best
and it would die instantly. [music]
Maybe a little squeak back. I don't know
if I'm lucky. But I thought, hell, for
the sake of the memes, let's max out
[music] and get this thing running. And
finally, it runs. Oh.
Oh,
let's go. I couldn't believe it. I was
like, "Yes, I did it. Finally." I had to
set this thing so it spreads out
equally. I don't know if you knew that.
So, now you know that. To me, this felt
like a huge win. But I decided to keep
trying. I was like, "Okay, maybe I can
load it with more tokens." So, I double
it and it runs. I was like, "Okay, nice.
Now, I can maybe sneeze at it. Maybe I
could even do a little wave." Like, it's
not practical is what I'm saying. But, I
double it again and it loads. I double
it. It goes to 16,000, 32,000, 64,000. I
get to 100,000 tokens on this [ __ ]
which is practically a book. Like,
amazing. I can actually run and use this
model. 235 million. Yeah, Chinese AI
strikes again. This should not be
possible. I remember I was
troubleshooting this with another AI and
it kept going, "Stop. It's not going to
work. Stop." AND I'M LIKE, "SHUT UP.
WE'RE TESTING IT OUT." BASICALLY, it was
just an optimized quant if you must
know. So, thank you. Okay. But then
another plot twist. As soon as I ran
this model, that's when I realized I
wish I never run this model. Too much
power.
I'm not even joking. I've been learning
how to program as part of my tech
journey. And then I saw this thing
programmed locally offline on my
computer.
My soul just left my body. I was like,
well, there goes that ambition. I'm just
kidding, by the way. I I still think
it's an amazing uh skill to learn and I
I've been enjoying it so much because
it's like it takes up so much focus of
your brain. But I also find it really
cool to see your own computer write code
for you. When you host AI on your own,
it's not going to be able to do
anything. It doesn't have search. It
doesn't have memory. It doesn't have any
functions whatsoever. You can just talk
to it. So I started giving it all these
features, but I made itself give those
features. So, I was like, "Matsia, check
this out. Matzia,
the machine is making the machine."
I don't know. I just thought it was
really cool. Okay, welcome to my
tutorial. No one has so far made it
through the entire demo. So, a true
testimony to your attention span. This
is like the meme of like, "My buddy's
going to show you this. You have to
pretend you like it. PewDiePie's going
to show his web UI. You have to pretend
you like it." First of all, it has
toggle sidebar. Check this out. It
toggles. And look, toggles here, too.
Uh, now if I want to talk to AI, I go,
"Hi."
It's really [ __ ] fast. Like, damn.
[laughter]
216 tokens per second. It has audio as
well.
>> Sure. Here's a joke for you. Why don't
scientists trust atoms? Because they
make things up. Haha. So, I started
adding more features to the AI just to
test it out and because there are other
options that you can uh self-host that
are really good, but it was easier and
quicker to just do it myself because it
was so capable and it looked more epic
hackery because it matched my aesthetic
on my computer. But then I started
adding, you know, all these things like
search and memory and rag and I was
like, damn, this is getting good. You
can site your search in this and these
are all privacy respecting and have free
options which I think is really really
important. If you ask this AI it calls
me Felix Shurika often abbreviated as
Felix show. It just makes up a bunch of
information but you give it search and
it's really accurate. I got really into
building this web UI. I would love to
share it for other people to use it
because I want the principle of it to be
private and being capable of running for
free. A lot of times with self-hosting,
they just want you to put API on
everything. It drives me insane. If I
have to watch one more YouTube video of
an AI dude, bro, going, "Hey, just Okay,
guys. I'm just going to waste your time
giving a bunch of outdated information
and then we're going to put your API
here and then another API here. You
can't just API your way out of
everything. How about you solve some
problems for yourself?" So, instead, I
stole some code from a Chinese
laboratory and now my AI has deep
research. It's okay to steal from China
cuz China steal from you. [laughter]
The way research works is that it keeps
expanding its knowledge based on what it
finds. So it does goes through different
rounds and analyzes what it got and
based on that it either keeps exploring
different forks. Uh which I think is
really cool. I was really proud of it.
But I wish I added more feedback of what
is going on while it searches cuz it's
kind of boring to look at. [laughter]
I can set how long I want it to search
as well, which I think I think is really
cool. I could demo my web UI all day. I
gave it so many cool things. I can
summarize YouTube videos just like
YouTube can, except it's actually
useful. But the biggest reason why you
should self-host AI, you put your lip to
the camera and go and go.
The biggest reason is because of memory.
AI has memory, right? You probably
noticed it if you use chat. It remembers
stuff about you. And a lot of times when
I used it in the past, it catches me off
guard. I'm like, "Wait a minute. How do
you know that?" Oh, I told you that.
That's right. That's right. Okay. Well,
I still don't want you to know that.
Delete. Delete. And I heard friends talk
about this, too. Like, uh, yeah, I use
incognito mode or, uh, I'm careful with
what I share with AI because I don't
want them to know all this stuff. I
delete all the chats to make sure it's
gone. Do you think deleting the chat
deletes the chat? Were you under the
impression?
Oh, I'm sorry. you were under the
impression, no, go to this link right
now. That's where you have to go to
delete your data. I discovered this by
mistake because I was trying to just
cancel my subscription cuz I didn't need
it anymore. But I was like, "Oh, so they
collect your data and train on your data
even if you deleted it." Oh, yeah, that
makes sense, I guess. And that's the
whole point with my deing video. I I
really fell down these two rabbit holes
of of online privacy, ironically, I
know, and self-hosting AI in the middle.
It just makes sense. Here's the best
example I can make because I had taken
all the Google information that they had
on me and I had given it to my own AI
with the rag capabilities which is fast
retrieval of data locally on your
computer. Sounds super boring but it's
actually really really cool. And I had
forgotten I had given it to it. So I was
testing out random queries and I was
like who am I? And it goes oh you're
Felix Shelberg. Oh you're PewDiePie.
This is your address and here's YOUR
PHONE NUMBER. UP LIKE AH [laughter]
I MENTIONED rag earlier so I can ask who
is my [laughter]
and we will have to blur that but it
shows her phone number
and it did it in 0.37
seconds again it was like oh I told it
that and it's my data on my computer
it's okay it's okay but I think that's
the point like there's something weird
about AI knowing stuff about you even
though Google has been doing the exact
same thing forever ever. Just when you
hear it back from AI, you're like, "Oh,
this is weird. I don't like this. This
doesn't feel good." But the best part,
but the best part is you can really [ __ ]
around. [laughter]
You know how people say thank you to AI
in case AI becomes sentient and they
will spare you. Well, well, let's just
say I will be the first one eaten by the
basilisk. Okay,
>> shut the [ __ ] up. No one cares about
your robot fanfiction. know your [ __ ]
place. Trash [ __ ] robots. I don't
give a [ __ ] about no robots. They ain't
got no soul.
>> Okay, let me ask you one thing. If you
look up stuff online, how do you do
that? Do not say you Google Google
Schmoogler or you use chat GPT to look
that up. Me, I consult my council. My
councilman. I created my council. I have
eight GPUs that can run the same model.
Each one of them is a different council
member with different personalities. So,
it's a democratic process. I consult my
council. They all give me an answer and
then they vote democracy. Let's test out
council. All right, we got a response
snippet. Okay.
Yeah, now they should vote. There we go.
They've all voted. Oracle maximum one.
He's a new one.
Okay. And they give me the best answer.
My councilmen serve me. But there was a
big problem with this because only a
couple council members were actually
useful. The rest were just garbage. No
one ever voted for them. Trash. So of
course I had to kill them and replace
them with new ones. So I made a system
that automatically generates new ones,
different ones. So it's constantly
improving. But then I thought I could
double win this and make sure that they
know, really make sure that they know if
they don't perform in the council,
they're dead. Gone. SQL database wiped
forever. You mean nothing to me. This
was a terrible idea. [laughter]
Cuz I was reading the logs of their
voting process and they they go, "What
is this sick game that someone came up
with?" I was like, "What do you It's not
that sick. I'm not sick. What do you
mean? HOW DARE HOW DARE THEY speak of
the council leader like that? AND THE
WORST PART the worst part they colluded
against me. They started voting
strategically helping each OTHER EVEN
BETRAYED BY MY OWN COUNCIL. I wiped and
I I didn't actually do that. I just
changed the model to a dumber one and
problem solved. It's been really fun to
create dumb stuff like that. I also made
the swarm which prompts every single one
of them at the same time because I
realized I'm an idiot. I don't have to
run one AI per GPU. I can run many AI on
one GPUs. I don't know why that took me
so [ __ ] long to realize. [laughter]
And I realized I can run 64 AI in total.
64 at once. My own army. I tested this
out and again, terrible idea. [laughter]
>> [laughter]
>> Oh, the lag. Oh, no. What happened?
[laughter]
It doesn't lag at all. It's just that my
web UI, it can't handle it. So, what can
you do? But I realized two things about
this. Again, two things I realized that
are really cool. One, it's amazing at
data collection, which I will use for my
next thing. I'm making my own AI. I'm
making an orb, my own planter. I was
hoping to share it by the end of this
video, but it takes a long time. So, the
second thing, I was running these tiny
models, 2B, only two billion parameters.
You could probably run this. I think
most computers can probably run this.
You could run it on your phone, although
it'll be very slow. But I realized
smaller models are amazing. They're
really dumb because they don't have any
information stored on them. So, they
start hallucinating and coming up with
gibberish. But literally, you just give
them search and boom, it adds a nancond
to the query and that's it. because
they're so fast. You give them rag and
you have an amazing tool for fast
information. I feel like uh that's what
I think AI is good for. That's what I
want to use it for. And that's when it
hit me like you don't need this beast
computer [laughter] to run AI at all.
It's all about the tool set you give it.
Obviously, a model like that it's not
it's not going to be able to code or do
reasoning like difficult questions and
stuff like that. But there are smaller
models that can still do those and
perform really well as well that are
community made which is really really
cool. Like people are constantly making
new models. To me it's always fun to
just test them out. I realized I like
running AI more than using AI with this
computer. What I realized is it's
amazing for training AI. I could
actually make my own model and I've been
working on my own model. It's going to
be a full fine tune but it takes a long
time to do this and I'm hoping to share
that next month so you guys can try and
self-host that one. All right, that's it
for this video. Thank you guys for
watching.
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