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This Week in AI: When ‘open source’ isn’t so open
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Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own.
This week, Meta released the latest in its Llama series of generative AI models: Llama 3 8B and Llama 3 70B. Capable of analyzing and writing text, the models are “open sourced,” Meta said — intended to be a “foundational piece” of systems that developers design with their unique goals in mind.
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been publishing a series of interviews focused on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution.
We’re publishing these pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more profiles here.
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Today’s newsletter :
This Week in AI: When ‘open source’ isn’t so open
Women in AI: Allison Cohen on building responsible AI projects
Too many models
Meta raises the bar with open source Llama 3 LLM
SAS aims to make AI accessible regardless of skill set with packaged AI models
To build a better AI helper, start by modeling the irrational behavior of humans
Meta Is Already Training a More Powerful Successor to Llama 3
The Biggest Deepfake Porn Website Is Now Blocked in the UK
How to Stop ChatGPT’s Voice Feature From Interrupting You
The Taylor Swift Album Leak’s Big AI Problem
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own.
This week, Meta released the latest in its Llama series of generative AI models: Llama 3 8B and Llama 3 70B. Capable of analyzing and writing text, the models are “open sourced,” Meta said — intended to be a “foundational piece” of systems that developers design with their unique goals in mind.
“We believe these are the best open source models of their class, period,” Meta wrote in a blog post.
“We are embracing the open source ethos of releasing early and often.”
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been publishing a series of interviews focused on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution.
We’re publishing these pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more profiles here.
In the spotlight today: Allison Cohen, the senior applied AI projects manager at Mila, a Quebec-based community of more than 1,200 researchers specializing in AI and machine learning.
She works with researchers, social scientists and external partners to deploy socially beneficial AI projects.
Cohen’s portfolio of work includes a tool that detects misogyny, an app to identify online activity from suspected human trafficking victims, and an agricultural app to recommend sustainable farming practices in Rwanda.
Too many models
Summary:
How many AI models is too many? It depends on how you look at it, but 10 a week is probably a bit much. That’s roughly how many we’ve seen roll out in the last few days, and it’s increasingly hard to say whether and how these models compare to one another, if it was ever possible to begin with. So what’s the point?
We’re at a weird time in the evolution of AI, though of course it’s been pretty weird the whole time. We’re seeing a proliferation of models large and small, from niche developers to large, well-funded ones.
Let’s just run down the list from this week, shall we? I’ve tried to condense what sets each model apart.
Meta has introduced Llama 3, the next generation of its state-of-the-art open source large language model (LLM).
The tech giant claims Llama 3 establishes new performance benchmarks, surpassing previous industry-leading models like GPT-3.5 in real-world scenarios.
“With Llama 3, we set out to build the best open models that are on par with the best proprietary models available today,” said Meta in a blog post announcing the release.
The initial Llama 3 models being opened up are 8 billion and 70 billion parameter versions.
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SAS aims to make AI accessible regardless of skill set with packaged AI models
SAS, a specialist in data and AI solutions, has unveiled what it describes as a “game-changing approach” for organisations to tackle business challenges head-on.
Introducing lightweight, industry-specific AI models for individual licence, SAS hopes to equip organisations with readily deployable AI technology to productionise real-world use cases with unparalleled efficiency.
To build a better AI helper, start by modeling the irrational behavior of humans
To build AI systems that can collaborate effectively with humans, it helps to have a good model of human behavior to start with.
But humans tend to behave suboptimally when making decisions.
This irrationality, which is especially difficult to model, often boils down to computational constraints.
Meta Is Already Training a More Powerful Successor to Llama 3
On Thursday morning, Meta released its latest artificial intelligence model, Llama 3, touting it as the most powerful to be made open source so that anyone can use it.
The same afternoon, Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist, said an even more powerful successor to Llama is in the works.
The Biggest Deepfake Porn Website Is Now Blocked in the UK
Two of the biggest deepfake pornography websites have now started blocking people trying to access them from the United Kingdom.
The move comes days after the UK government announced plans for a new law that will make creating nonconsensual deepfakes a criminal offense.
How to Stop ChatGPT’s Voice Feature From Interrupting You
I WAS RECENTLY waiting for my nails to dry and didn’t want to smudge the paint, when it dawned on me that this would be the perfect opportunity to test some voice-only artificial intelligence features.
Silicon Valley car owners are having long conversations with ChatGPT as they drive around, and I wanted to try chatting hands-free before meeting with two OpenAI product leads later that day.
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