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Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI

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Re: Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI

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Post by 1_over_n »

fast.ai are doing the best work democratizing AI (machine learning and neural networks), including natural language

Can't recommend the course enough and it's incredible that such a quality resource is available for essentially zero cost

https://github.com/fastai/course-nlp

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtmWHNX-gukKocXQOkQju...

Re: Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI

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Post by OneEyedRobot »

samstave wrote: post #2

I have been thinking recently about the ethics of AI; At what point do we 'allow' AI to determine actions based on perceived (programmed) *BIAS* How can one prevent any bias on an AI's ability to be deterministic.

What if an AI is unbiased but makes decisions people don't like?

Re: Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI

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Post by forgotmypw17 »

joe_the_user wrote: post #34

Large language model are the rage, it seems. Can someone a successful (not necessarily profitable) concrete application of these things, other than "gpt-3 wrote an article in Guardian and said it wouldn't kill us".

In the narrow access window I was allowed to Philosopher AI, I found it incredibly helpful in brainstorming and bouncing ideas off. It helped me organize my project, and I even included the conversations in the repo.

Re: Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI

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Post by robbedpeter »

shamoo wrote: post #9

What stops Google, Microsoft, etc from doing the same if Cohere's solution gains traction?

Bureaucratic inertia, sunk cost fallacy, interdepartmental resource hoarding, corporate bloat, and finally, HR and middle management all jealously guarding their petty kingdoms.

Oh, and the fact that Cohere is an expensive solution for a problem that's already been solved for free by open source groups.

Re: Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI

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Post by Olshansky »

The same day this made the front page of hacker news, one of the founders is also playing his first live concert with his band tonight: https://twitter.com/goodkidband/status/1435267485683568642.

The best part of the story for me is the work-life-balance he's able o achieve.

Re: Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI

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Post by ergot_vacation »

>In the last year, critics of large NLP models, which are trained on huge amounts of text from the web, have raised concerns about the ways that the technology inadvertently picks up biases inherent to the people or viewpoints in this training data. Such critiques gained steam after Google controversially pushed out famed AI researcher Timnit Gebru, in part due to a paper she coauthored analyzing these risks. Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez says his company has developed new tools and invested a lot of time into making sure the Cohere models don’t ingest such bad data.

So it's censored. No thanks, not interested.

Re: Ex-Googlers raise $40M to democratize natural-language AI

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Post by aaron695 »

joe_the_user wrote: post #34

Large language model are the rage, it seems. Can someone a successful (not necessarily profitable) concrete application of these things, other than "gpt-3 wrote an article in Guardian and said it wouldn't kill us".

Chess AI still can't play like a human. There is some research into it now.

The article certainly paints them as the normal AI scam.

There are smaller tasks that need doing first rather than natural language.

Like OCR is still unsolved / not democratized as they call it.

But $$$$$ and VC capital != useful to people.

A good concrete application of what they are doing is the ability to DDOS information. They mass produce data to destroy current systems. Like SEO

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