Photo by Jens Johnsson on Pexels

A Reddit user is embarking on an AI exploration journey and seeking advice from the r/artificial intelligence community. Their ambitious goals include leveraging AI for diverse tasks like story generation, creating AI-generated photos, performing clothing swaps, and building a personal, local version of a “ChatGPT”-like AI. A key requirement is the need for uncensored models, particularly for story generation purposes.

Currently equipped with a 3700x CPU, x570 motherboard, 32GB RAM, and a 12GB 6700XT graphics card, the user is looking for hardware upgrade suggestions within a $1000 budget. Potential upgrade paths under consideration include acquiring older server hardware featuring 16+ cores, 64GB of RAM, and a more powerful graphics card such as a 24GB 3090 or V100. In addition to hardware, the user is also requesting recommendations for software. Given their limited Linux experience, they prefer a GUI-based operating system like Ubuntu or Windows 10 Pro. The original query can be found on the Reddit Artificial Intelligence forum: https://old.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1o9h2er/need_help_with_idea_of_getting_into_ai/