A new analysis shows that “open source” AI tools like Llama 2 are still controlled by big tech companies in a number of ways.
  • Zeth0s@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Until governments put money to openly train open source models from trusted and vetted data, this is the best we have.

    Government should put money and resources like for basic research into LLMs that can be the base for model of public interest

    • StillPaisleyCat@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      1 year ago

      This is an excellent point.

      Training AIs on quality unbiased data should be looked at as being a pubic good in the classic economic sense.

      Governments would find it difficult to justify paying for training an AI for a specific government need or program at that cost. To do it to establish a public resource is something different. Much more akin to why countries have statistical agencies and structured data repositories.

  • NightAuthor@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Source available == open source

    The licenses governing use of these AIs and the fact that no one besides major corps have the hardware and manpower to train/tweak these massive AIs means they have and maintain an upper hand in making and selling these AI platforms.

  • StillPaisleyCat@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Interesting article. Thanks OP for posting.

    It’s notable that even most major government departments or agencies in the OECD would find it difficult to justify the resources, 10s or 100s of millions of dollars, required to train an AI, even if they have sufficient staff with the expertise. That means these not-so-open source AIs aren’t accessible.