Yeah this is exactly what happens when you ask a base model a question. It'll just attempt to continue what you already wrote based off its training set, so if you say have it continue a story you've written it may wrap up the story and then ask you to subscribe for part 2, followed by a bunch of social media comments with reviews.

It can be fun, though, to prompt a text completion with something like "I'm thinking about" and just seeing what random thing it completes it with.

I absolutely did not:

ollama run mixtral:8x22b

EDIT: I like how you ninja-editted your comment ;)

Considering "mixtral:8x22b" on ollama was last updated yesterday, and Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1 (the topic of this post) was released about 2 hours ago, they are not the same model.

Are we looking at the same page?

https://imgur.com/a/y6XfpBl

And even the direct tag page: https://ollama.com/library/mixtral:8x22b shows 40-something minutes ago: https://imgur.com/a/WNhv70B

Let me clarify.

Mixtral-8x22B-v0.1 was released a couple days ago. The "mixtral:8x22b" tag on ollama currently refers to it, so it's what you got when you did "ollama run mixtral:8x22b". It's a base model only capable of text completion, not any other tasks, which is why you got a terrible result when you gave it instructions.

Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1 is an instruction-following model based on Mixtral-8x22B-v0.1. It was released two hours ago and it's what this post is about.

(The last updated 44 minutes ago refers to the entire "mixtral" collection.)

And where does it say that's the instruct model?

I get:

ollama run mixtral:8x22b

Error: exception create_tensor: tensor 'blk.0.ffn_gate.0.weight' not found

You need to update ollama to 0.1.32.