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EleutherAI announces it has become a non-profit

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Re: EleutherAI announces it has become a non-profit

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post #11

Not sure why the AI community has a weird obsession with being non-profit (or not). It's not like non-profits can't be evil, and it's not like OpenAI has done anything particularly egregious, either. What we do need is more weights being released in the public domain (hard to find even on Huggingface), easier ways to train models locally, better pruned models for embedded device inference (e.g. running on a Jetson Na…

> easier ways to train models locally, better pruned models for embedded device inference (e.g. running on a Jetson Nano), easier ways to fine-tune for specific contexts

I think there are steps being taken in this direction (check out [1] and [2] for interesting lightweight transpile / ad-hoc training projects) but there is a lack of centralized community for these constrained problems.

[1] https://github.com/emlearn/emlearn [2] https://github.com/BayesWitnesses/m2cgen

Re: EleutherAI announces it has become a non-profit

#28
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how do you pronounce it correctly

If it's from the greek word for freedom (ελευθερία) then i guess elefther: ele (like electric) f the (like thesis) r.

I'm just going to keep saying YOO-luh-tuhr, thank you very much.

Re: EleutherAI announces it has become a non-profit

#29
post #11

Not sure why the AI community has a weird obsession with being non-profit (or not). It's not like non-profits can't be evil, and it's not like OpenAI has done anything particularly egregious, either. What we do need is more weights being released in the public domain (hard to find even on Huggingface), easier ways to train models locally, better pruned models for embedded device inference (e.g. running on a Jetson Na…

Sam doing a 180 on non-profit to for-profit was egregious, IMHO. Having said that, plenty of extremely profitable organizations masquerade (literally and figuratively) as non-profits.

Also: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1626516035863212034

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