OpenAI was a non-profit that now owns a for-profit entity also called OpenAI.
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Company reverses anti-open-source stance amid internal disagreement
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AI Assistants as Future Digital Infrastructure Smarter Than Humans
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A panel on AI at the Paris Peace Forum today. Starting at 42'00, I plot the future of AI: all of our interactions with the digital world will be mediated by AI assistants that will eventually become smarter than us.
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Microsoft’s Anti-Openness Stance on AI Platform Questioned
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Very strange anti-openness argument from Microsoft President Brad Smith in response to my open source AI platform advocacy.
— Yann LeCun (@ylecun) 10 novembre 2023
I thought Microsoft had long abandoned its anti open source stance.
Doesn't Azure run on Linux? https://t.co/I2SYh4gTMjVery strange anti-openness argument from Microsoft President Brad Smith in response to my open source AI platform advocacy. I thought Microsoft had long abandoned its anti open source stance.
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Microsoft President Questions Meta’s Open Source AI Credibility
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A curious response from Microsoft President Brad Smith, in response to my advocacy for open source AI platforms at the Paris Peace Forum today. He claimed Llama isn't open because Meta is controlled by one person while OpenAI is trustworthy because it is owned by a non-profit.
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Open-Access Deep Learning Course: Years of Teaching Refinement
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The full story of the open-access Deep Learning course that Alfredo Canziani and I have been teaching together and refining over the last several years.
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AI Existential Risk Fears Based on Flawed Ideas
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The fears of AI-fueled existential risks are based on flawed ideas.
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FAIR-Paris Seeds Paris AI Startup Ecosystem Growth
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An article about the bubbling AI startup ecosystem in Paris and the important role FAIR-Paris played in seeding it.
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Major AI Industry Event Paris November 17 Features Tech Leaders
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Big AI industry event at Station F in Paris, Friday Nov 17. Keynote Speakers: Eric Schmidt (Schmidt Future), Jensen Huang (CEO Nvidia), Xavier Niel (Iliad/Scaleway). Speakers include: Thomas Scialom (Meta, of Llama fame), Arthur Mensch (CEO Mistral, or Mistral-7B fame), Jason
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Academia’s Role in AGI: Beyond Scaling Current Architectures
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You might think that joining academia is like "retiring from the AI race" if you believe that making progress towards human-level AI is just a matter of scaling up current architectures and data. But then, you would be wrong.
It requires new ideas, new concepts, new principles.