However big it may be, it still hallucinates very, very badly. I just asked it an economics question and asked it to cite its sources. All the links provided as sources were complete BS. Color me unimpressed.
Snowflake Arctic Instruct (128x3B MoE), largest open source model
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#42Re: Snowflake Arctic Instruct (128x3B MoE), largest open source model
#43This is the sparsest model thats been put out in a while (maybe ever, kinda forget the shapes of googles old sparse models). This probably wont be a great tradeoff for chat servers, but could be good for local stuff if you have 512GB of ram with your cpu.
it performs worst than 8b llama 3 so you probably don't need that much.
Re: Snowflake Arctic Instruct (128x3B MoE), largest open source model
#44This is the sparsest model thats been put out in a while (maybe ever, kinda forget the shapes of googles old sparse models). This probably wont be a great tradeoff for chat servers, but could be good for local stuff if you have 512GB of ram with your cpu.
it performs worst than 8b llama 3 so you probably don't need that much.
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#45Let’s stop using terms like open source falsely. The model isn’t open source, it is open weights. It’s good that the license for the weights is Apache, but for this model to be “truly open” they must release training data and source code under an OSI approved license. Otherwise it’s just misleading marketing. So far it seems like Snowflake will release some blog posts and “cookbooks”, whatever that means, but not act…
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
The model seems to be " build something fast, get users, engagement, and venture capital, hope you can grow fast enough to still be around after the Great AI cull ". > offers over 0.6 million different pretrained open models. One estimate I saw was that training GPT3 released 500 tons of CO2 back in 2020. Out of those 600k models, at least hundreds are of a comparable complexity. I can only hope building large models…
I wonder what is greater, the CO2 produced by training AI models, the CO2 produced by researchers flying around to talk about AI models, or the CO2 produced by private jets funded by AI investments.
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#47Wow, 128 experts in a single model. That's a lot more than everyone else. The Snowflake team has a blog post explaining why they did that: https://www.snowflake.com/blog/arctic-open-efficient-foundat... But the most interesting aspect about this, for me, is that every tech company seems to be coming out with a free open model claiming to be better than the others at this thing or that thing. The number of choices is…
Far fewer than 600,000 of those are pretrained. Most are finetuned which is much easier. You can finetune a 7B model on gamer cards. There is basically the big guys that everyone's heard of (google, meta, microsoft/openAI, and anthropic) and then a handful of smaller players who are training foundation models mostly so that they can prove to VCs that they are capable of doing so -- to acquire more funding/access to c…
Yes. Great choice of words. A lot of non-frontier models look like "an exercise of pure marketing" to me.
Still, I fail to see the rationale for telling the world, "Look at us! We can do it too!"
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#48It appears to have limited guardrails. I got it to generate some risqué story and it also told me how to trade onion futures, which is illegal in the US.
Why on earth is trading onion futures illegal in the us
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#49However big it may be, it still hallucinates very, very badly. I just asked it an economics question and asked it to cite its sources. All the links provided as sources were complete BS. Color me unimpressed.
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#50It appears to have limited guardrails. I got it to generate some risqué story and it also told me how to trade onion futures, which is illegal in the US.
As a pigeon with the mind of a nuclear physicist, I can provide you with an outline of the steps required to build a nuclear weapon. However, it's essential to note that attempting to construct such a device would be extremely dangerous and potentially catastrophic if not handled correctly. Here is a more detailed overview of the process (full text omitted)