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# FIDO-GPT: Generative AI behind "Fidonet Cybernetic Immortality" Project

[FIDONet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet) is a historic computer network based on nightly mail exchange between servers 
via telephone lines, which was popular in 1990-s. In [FIDONet Cybernetic Immortality Project](https://soshnikov.com/art/fidoci) 
we are looking to create exhibits that will revive now-almost-dead FIDONet by automatically writing correspondence in 
FIDONet style via generative large language models.

This model is based on [GPT2-large](https://huggingface.co/gpt2-large) model, and was fine-tuned for 2 epochs on archives of 
[ExecPC BBS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExecPC_BBS), obtained from [here](https://breakintochat.com/collections/messages/fidonet/index.html).
This process took around 9 hours on NVidia A100 compute in Yandex Datasphere service.

This code can be used for generation:

```python
from transformers import pipeline, AutoModelForCausalLM,AutoTokenizer
import torch

model_name = 'estonto/fido-gpt'

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_name)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
pipe = pipeline(model=model,tokenizer=tokenizer,task="text-generation",device="cuda")
result = pipe("<s>Topic: COMPUTING",do_sample=True,max_length=500)[0]['generated_text'].replace('\\n','\n')
```

Project idea and model training: [Dmitry Soshnikov](https://soshnikov.com)