What’s the best way for people to contribute to AI open source? I can’t produce things like this for many reasons so how can I and others like me do our part to keep SOTA AI open?
Join the community building the tools - Help with UI/UX, documentation, keeping up with the latest, and evangelizing whatever method the team building it has devised to keep it sustained.
Being part of the community itself is more valuable than you realize.
- try to implement techniques that are doable on home hardware like the one described in OP (requires some $$$ investment) and give feedback or contribute to documentation / guides
- learn about different techniques and do educational writeups or documentation (like https://vickiboykis.com/2024/02/28/gguf-the-long-way-around/)
- build a tool / library that wrap academic techinques and expose them more easily to end users (like A1111 or comfyUI for stable diffusion)
Anything that can translate the high end research down to something a moderately technical user can use or learn from is a gigantic win