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Student challenges university over AI chatbot academic integrity case
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I had another email from another student who was featured in this article “Zimny, 20, said she plead her case to her professor, the head of the school’s political science department and a university dean, to no avail.” https://
washingtonpost.com/technology/202
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Optional FlashAttention 2 Installation Feature
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Yes, it's an optional feature. It uses FlashAttention by default, but you can optionally use FlashAttention 2 via pip install 'flash-attn>=2.0.0.post1' –no-build-isolation
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Nature’s Intelligence: Dead Fish Swimming Upstream Challenges AI Assumptions
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What we think is intelligence might not be the intelligence we see in nature.
— Sakana AI (@SakanaAILabs) 22 août 2023
“This experiment of a fish swimming upstream is truly stunning. Why? The fish is dead. If you’re streamlined and flexible, you can do a lot by doing nothing at all.” —@chubickihttps://t.co/SEyptNDenq pic.twitter.com/QKvFB99a4UWhat we think is intelligence might not be the intelligence we see in nature. “This experiment of a fish swimming upstream is truly stunning. Why? The fish is dead. If you’re streamlined and flexible, you can do a lot by doing nothing at all.” —
@chubicki https://
cambridge.org/core/journals/
journal-of-fluid-mechanics/article/abs/passive-propulsion-in-vortex-wakes/A431EC18AAEDA78CC6572FB62A249005
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Stable Diffusion Anniversary: One Year of Generative AI Innovation
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One year ago, we co-released @StableDiffusion
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LLMs Environmental and Educational Harms Demand Immediate Action
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AI community I’ve been a part for ten years! Who needs “sentient” AI when LLMs use SO MUCH water now & harm students bc people think they’re cheating & steal IP? Who needs long term “potential harms?” The REAL harms are HERE NOW. Ban LLMs until they don’t harm people & planet.
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QLoRA Support Added to Lit-GPT for All LLM Models
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Just added QLoRA support for all LLMs in Lit-GPT: Llama 2, Falcon, Pythia, StableLM, and all others! You can use it via `python finetune/lora.py –quantize "bnb.nf4"` to save significant GPU memory. I've ran a few more benchmarks on the Gh PR here: https://
github.com/Lightning-AI/l
it-gpt/pull/275
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LLMs water consumption hidden environmental cost of AI
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The soundtrack of climate change is definitively weed whacked and lawn mowers. If anyone ever invented tools that more provide a sense of being able to control and manipulate nature, let me know. Oh, right – LLMs and their water use. But they’re silent and hidden.
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LLM Water Consumption Crisis Demands Immediate Regulation
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Agreed. So are you in? 🙂 Let’s ban LLMs until they stop using water. Come on! Let’s get called Luddites together & hear myriad answers that all boil down to people saying, “But the LLMs make me money or famous NOW. Don’t make me be responsible!” #BanLLMs Gary? @GaryMarcus
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Camenduru Returns with AI WebUI Tool Under Organization
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@camenduru is back under an org we are bracing for even more virality https://
huggingface.co/spaces/camendu
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