Safety in Numbers: Keeping AI Open
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🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I think the battle is for the neutrality of the technology. |
| 0:04.0 | This is the story of humanity, making knowledge access more fluid. |
| 0:08.0 | Basically in 2021, every paper made this mistake. |
| 0:12.0 | It means that we're only trusting the team of... one, every paper made this mistake. |
| 0:12.8 | It means that we're only trusting the team of large companies |
| 0:15.8 | to figure out ways of addressing these problems. |
| 0:18.9 | All of the people that joined us as well, |
| 0:20.9 | deeply regretted because we think that we are definitely not at the end of the story. |
| 0:25.4 | As it turns out, if you look at the history of software, the only way we did software collaboratively |
| 0:29.6 | is through open source. |
| 0:30.5 | So why change the recipe? Scaling loss. |
| 0:34.0 | These underpin the success of large language models today, |
| 0:37.0 | but the relationship between data sets, compute, |
| 0:40.0 | and the number of parameters was not always clear. |
| 0:43.0 | But in 2022, a pivotal paper came out, |
| 0:46.0 | often referred to as Chinchilla |
| 0:48.0 | that changed the way that many people in the research community |
| 0:51.0 | thought about that very calculus, |
| 0:52.0 | demonstrating that |
| 0:53.4 | data sets were actually more important than just the sheer size of the model. |
| 0:57.4 | One of the key authors behind that paper was Arthur Metched, who was working at Deep Mind at the time. |
| 1:04.0 | Now earlier this year, Arthur banded together with Giam Lampo and Timothy Lequois, two researchers |
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