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Some of this exists already in pockets (Common Crawl, The Pile, RedPajama are all volunteer/open efforts). I suppose there's no equivalent of the "edit this page and see the impact…

Agree that this makes it unlikely we see frontier training data OS'd but this is a separate problem from software and infrastructure transparency, which has none of those constrain…

Agree, this feels like a distinction that needs formalising... Passive transparency: training data, technical report that tells you what the model learned and why it behaves the wa…

Compute costs are falling fast, training is getting cheaper. GPT-2 costs pocket change to train, and now it costs pocket train to tune >1T parameter models. If it was transparent w…

The framing here is undersold in the broader discourse: "open weights" is a ruse for reproducibility. What you have is closer to a compiled binary than source code. You can run it,…

Personally, I love this theory. The thought of natural assembly and selection at the level of Black Holes is alluring. Not sure what The Black Mirror Hypothesis ( https://curtjaimu…

They're also littering the London tube system with ads - there's definitely been a lottery win or a series A.

The fact that the machines generated this Wikipedia page for their version of events makes this artwork. https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/b0e14755-0bd9-4da6-8175-c...

The National Library of Scotland has an impressive web tool that allows you to overlay detailed historical Ordnance Survey (OS) maps (dating back to 1841 for this instance) onto mo…

by this metric, Midjourney produce 1,920,000,000 images/day, that would put it on-par with Google at 8.9bn searches/day!