Ollama Fundamentals 01 - Your Own AI Assistant Running Locally

Getting Started with Ollama! This first tutorial in our Ollama Fundamentals Course walks you through how to get started with running large language models (LLMs) on your local device.

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:14 Reasons to run AI models locally
1:00 What is Ollama?
1:24 How to install Ollama
1:40 Demo - Download and install Ollama
3:00 How to run Ollama on Windows
4:05 Demo - Running Ollama
5:09 Trying out our AI Assistant
5:29 Demo Prompting our AI Assistant
6:04 Prompt - List of historical milestones in AI
6:43 Prompt - Explain LLMs
7:14 Prompt - Explain at a 6th grade level
7:55 Prompt - Recipe for Buffalo Chicken Dip
8:35 Conclusion

Do you want to have your very own AI assistant running locally on your machine? If so, you're not alone and there are a lot of reasons to do this. What are the reasons? Well, let's look at some…

Privacy
Offline use
Customization
Cost
Ability to choose different models
Reduce ideological censorship

Just to name a few. So, if you are wanting to have a local AI assistant, I have good news for you. There are ways to do that. And one of the easiest ways is with an application called Ollama. Let's get started!