Tftjs: Running LLMs locally, Spring Text-to-Speech, Spring AI, AI Word of the Year, and more

Tales from the jar side, for the week ending January 8, 2024! How run Large Language Models on your own machine using Ollama, Generating mp3s from text using Spring and Open AI, the Spring AI project, the AI Word Of The Year, and the usual assortment of silly tweets, toots, and skeets.

Tales from the jar side:

Welcome to Tales from the jar side! New newsletter every Sunday, new newsletter video every Monday, and additional technical videos (Java, Gradle, JUnit, Spring, and lots more) every week.

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00:00 - Welcome to Tales from the jar side
01:43 - YouTube check-in
02:53 - Running LLMs Locally
09:10 - Ollama REST Demo
12:23 - Text-to-Speech with Spring
13:58 - The Spring AI Project
17:00 - AI Word Of The Year
20:14 - JVM Weekly
21:13 - Tweets, Toots, and Skeets