AI lost a monumental scientist in Doug Lenat.
His work on Cyc deeply inspires me till today — not so much because he worked on symbolic AI but because of how far he'd taken it, through a multi-decade dedication.
I hope the propreitary Cyc work (ontologies, etc.) get open-sourced
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Doug Lenat’s Cyc Legacy: Symbolic AI Pioneer’s Ontological Work
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Train KerasNLP Models Faster with Data Parallel Training
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Learn how to train KerasNLP models faster with data parallel training: https://
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Multilingual AI Dataset Benchmark on HuggingFace Platform
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That’s a really cool datasets and benchmark! Super nice to push progress on multilinguality. Would you be maybe interested in hosting there http://
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Open-Source AI Technologies Reshaping Global Power Dynamics
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"This is an age when the most powerful technologies are open-sourced in months, when millions have access to the cutting edge, and that cutting edge is the greatest force amplifier ever seen. This is the greatest reshuffling of power in history…"
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Belebele: Multilingual Benchmark for High and Low-Resource Languages
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Belebele is composed of carefully crafted multiple-choice questions & answers based on FLORES-200 passages. This work enables the evaluation of NLP systems and large language models in high and low-resource languages. More details in the paper
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Llama 2 Open Source Model for Flexible Bot Development
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If you're creating a bot, this option gives you more flexibility in case the other models don't meet your needs. And since Llama 2 is open source, you don't have to worry about your bot changing behavior or the base model going away in the long term. (2/2)
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Condor Galaxy 1 Powers BTLM and Jais Open-Source LLMs
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Condor Galaxy 1 (CG-1) was used to train BTLM, the top-performing open-source 3B parameter LLM. Now, CG-1 has been used to train Jais, the best open-source Arabic model. CG-1 is moving the open-source community forward. Contact us to train on CG-1 http://
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CodeLlama PR merged with 4-bit quantization inference benchmarks
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The CodeLlama PR just got merged: https://
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Create Your Own AutoTrain Advanced Space and Train Models
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Create your own AutoTrain Advanced Space and start training models!!!
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JAIS Arabic Language Model Released with Paper and Demo
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Paper, sandbox, and model here: https://
arxiv.org/abs/2308.16149
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arabic-gpt.ai https://
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