Jan Computer Control

We love Jan as an A.I. inference server. It also has a chat interface to chat with LLMs. But did you know that you can use this same chat interface as a computer control interface? Read on!

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Install and set up Jan

https://jan.ai/

Install Open Interpreter

https://docs.openinterpreter.com/getting-started/introduction

Run the Open Interpreter OpenAI-compatible server.

interpreter --server

Add flags to set the --model, --context_window, or any other setting you want

Edit Jan's OpenAI settings to point to the local server.

Settings => OpenAI => Chat Competion endpoint http://127.0.0.1:8000/openai/chat/completions.

Jan has a requirement to set a dummy OpenAI API key.

Go to Jan's chat window to start a new thread.

Set Model to an OpenAI model.

Start controlling your computer!