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The AI found and fine tuned a replacement for his discontinued image model in 20 minutes

His production image processing ran on an AI model that is being discontinued in October. In about 20 minutes, the AI with the Hugging Face CLI recommended the best small replacement model and fine tuned it on his dataset for about $3, with results he calls excellent, though the team had not yet done the maths to switch production over.

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How it works

  1. He asks the AI to find a replacement using the Hugging Face CLI
  2. It recommends a small model that fits
  3. It fine tunes the model on his dataset for about $3
  4. The results test as excellent, but the production switch is still waiting on cost maths

Why it’s worth knowing

Finding and training a replacement production model took 20 minutes and about $3, work that used to be a project on its own.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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