I've been playing a bit with #OpenAssistant, an open-source #AI chatbot similar in scope to #ChatGPT:
https://open-assistant.io/
While it's in early stages, it looks very promising. If you have some time, you can contribute by manually labeling / ranking prompts and responses.
@codewiz recently, I gave my shot with the Pygmalion AI 6B model, the results were not as bad as I thought it would be. I tried running it on Google Collab, and it worked pretty okay. Testing it locally is going to be a pain, since my laptop doesn’t have a GPU. The model was able to load and generate dialogues in 10 to 15 seconds, at a rate of 1 second per token, at 8 GB GPU RAM, 3 GB RAM and optimal CPU usage.