Yeah, this is a perfect microcosm of how "the system" works. This guy is right! He just got there too late, with too little money and not enough fanfare.<p>Sam Altman, on the other hand? He's the figurehead of a consumer-facing product with a brilliant marketing team and probably a crack team of lobbyists to boot. He's got billions of dollars in Microsoft funding and a product you can go use for free. All he's got to do is roll in there first with an AI alarmist response and convince lawmakers the state-of-the-art is dangerous. After all, OpenAI is synonymous with SOTA, right? So we follow the industry leaders, without really looking where they're headed. And now we end up here.<p>Oh how I wish Open Source software was fairly represented in court. But ideas don't pay for themselves, and money talks <i>awful</i> loud...
Open source is an essential building block for a sane digital society that would resemble our professed values.<p>AI is an important but ultimately small part of this overall transformation. Let me remind everybody that bitcoin, aiming to disrupt the very fundamentals of economic life, is also open source.<p>The evolutionary process of embedding open source capabilities at societal scale is far from automatic or manifestly benign (see above crypto reference).<p>A lot of technology, institutions, behaviors still need to be imagined, developed, tested and evangelized. That is the good, roll back your sleeves challenge for current and future generations of digital "social" engineers.<p>I struggle to see any alternative universe that is not dystopic. Genuinely interested if people have articulated "proprietary" visions that are intellectually honest as to their incentives and morally aligned with ideas of individual agency and freedom and democratic controls.
Their CEO did a fine job! I shared a five minute YouTube link with some friends and family. He did a great job explaining the advantages of open models and open source.
Weird to see huggingface in the news like this. I remember contributing some fix to it back in summer 2019 when it had 4k stars or something, and I thought it was a really popular project even then :)
Have you see Bittensor's project and what are your opinions? Would you consider integrating?
I believe it may help with the open source AI movement and projects such as this!
Since GPT3 was able to diagnose a problem patient that multiple Physicians could not solve, I have been concerned that we need these local models faster than ever. (And now the patient doesn't need to take Parkinson's medication before! The family doc misdiagnosed and every specialist tried to find their own solution. Thus why my wife didn't know the diagnosis.)<p>The AMA/Physician Cartel hates competition, they won't even like Physicians from other countries practice without going through the (regulatory capture) ACGME bottleneck.<p>LLMs have taken/will overtake a physician's abilities for diagnosis. The math/science will prove that LLMs lead to better outcomes. It seems inevitable.<p>However, when one person is misdiagnosed(and dies or makes for a sad, emotional story), the cartel will be able to point to it, and outspend everyone else lobbying/bribing to make LLM for medical use illegal... for our safety.