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An Interview With Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman about the Democratization of AI
Ben Thompsonstratechery.com
1/ AI exploded on the scene at the end of 2022, with applications like @OpenAI's ChatGPT taking the world by storm.
2023 is poised to be the most exciting year of AI yet! 🎉
Here's mine and @vivek7ue's look at the lay of the land + what might happen next...
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Artificial Intelligence
Timothy Shih and • 243 cards
Meta AI released LLaMA ... and they included a paper which described exactly what it was trained on. It was 5TB of data.
2/3 of it was from Common Crawl. It had content from GitHub, Wikipedia, ArXiv, StackExchange and something called “Books”.
What’s Books? 4.5% of the training data was books. Part of this was Project Gutenberg, which is public
Language models can take a big chunk of text and smush it down like a foot crushing a can of Coke. Except it doesn’t come out crushed—it comes out as a perfectly packaged and proportional mini-Coke. And it’s even drinkable! This is a Willy Wonka-esque magic trick, without the Oompa Loompas.
"A key challenge of (LLMs) is that they do not come with a manual! They come with a “Twitter influencer manual” instead, where lots of people online loudly boast about the things they can do with a very low accuracy rate, which is really frustrating..."
Simon Willison, attempting to explain LLM