@ilyasut (co-founder and Chief Scientist) will be co-leading the team with @janleike (Head of Alignment).
In addition to members from our existing alignment team, joining are Harri Edwards, @burdayur
, @AdrienLE
, @__nmca__
, @CollinBurns4
, @bobabowen
, @Pavel_Izmailov
, @leopoldasch
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New Alignment Team Leadership and Members Announced
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What’s wrong with miniconda/miniforge?
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Accounts using ChatGPT write so well it’s hard to notice
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Accounts that really know how to use ChatGPT to write do it so well it’s hard to notice. Top tier content, almost certainly AI generated.
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Open-sourcing LLaMa weights constrained by dataset legal concerns
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Yup, totally agree. That’s probably it. Afaik the reason why they couldn’t open-source the LLaMa weights was the dataset. So instead of scraping data from elsewhere and staying on shaky legal grounds, getting data from your own platform is probably easiest.
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Llama.cpp and Activation Checkpointing Optimization Techniques
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Book examines artificial intelligence applications in modern medicine
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Great book looking at what is going on with AI in medicine.
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Meta Threads emerges as viable Twitter alternative amid user dissatisfaction
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I haven't been tempted by Mastodon or Bluesky (don't think either can get enough of a network effect), but it says something that I've grown to dislike Musk's Twitter to the point I'll try Meta's Threads. I mean,I killed my FB account years ago. But I want a viable alt to Twitter
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Vision System Combines Image Generation and Recognition via Masking
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Vision system marries image generation and recognition by inferring the missing parts of an image. It uses a variable masking strategy during pre-training, helping a neural net fill in the gaps for tasks like editing and learning: https://
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Bloggers Should Share AI Training Data Revenue
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And to WordPress, which runs 40% of the Web. No one asked to ingest my blog into models. The bloggers should share in the money for teaching the models.
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LangChain Free Course: Building Document Question Answering Systems
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LangChain: Chat with Your Data, a new free short course created with @hwchase17, is now available! https://t.co/WxWiKL9qVl
— Andrew Ng (@AndrewYNg) 5 juillet 2023
In this 1 hour course, you’ll learn how to build one of the most requested LLM-based applications: Answering questions using information from a document or… pic.twitter.com/N9xSvOygnpLangChain: Chat with Your Data, a new free short course created with @hwchase17
, is now available! https://
deeplearning.ai/short-courses/
langchain-chat-with-your-data/
… In this 1 hour course, you’ll learn how to build one of the most requested LLM-based applications: Answering questions using information from a document or