Why is this not written in German, I'm afraid to ask?
Because german is hard.
Swiss AI Initiative (2023)
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Re: Swiss AI Initiative (2023)
#22Why is this not written in German, I'm afraid to ask?
Why it has to be german?
Re: Swiss AI Initiative (2023)
#23Why is this not written in German, I'm afraid to ask?
Why is it not written in French? Or Italian? Or Romansh? Because Switzerland has four official languages and English makes it easier for everyone
Not really. It's because the target audience is more academic/scientific rather than the Swiss population at large. In the latter case, it would be in the local languages. The law is relatively clear for this. English is not accepted in Switzerland as a replacement language for the "local" ones, although many people can speak or at least understand some English.
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#24Re: Swiss AI Initiative (2023)
#25Apertus is the open source 8b and 70b LLM from swiss-ai. They've published both the base and the instruct sft models. Very cool that projects like this exist. https://apertvs.ai/pages/documentation/
Tech report:
Re: Swiss AI Initiative (2023)
#26Why is this not written in German, I'm afraid to ask?
Most researchers in Switzerland are non-Swiss, and many institutes have English as language of business
Staff nationality of Swiss higher education institutions:
- Universities: 55% Swiss, 45% foreign - Universities of applied sciences: 75% Swiss, 25% foreign - Universities of teacher education: 87% Swiss, 13% foreign - Professors: 49% Swiss, 51% foreign - PhDs/scientific collaborators: 30% Swiss, 70% foreign - Professors of ETH Zurich: 31% Swiss, 69% foreign
Re: Swiss AI Initiative (2023)
#27Apertus is the open source 8b and 70b LLM from swiss-ai. They've published both the base and the instruct sft models. Very cool that projects like this exist. https://apertvs.ai/pages/documentation/
Is it any good?
Yes it’s not bad, although it’s not meant to be a chatbot, post training is limited, so it won’t feel as smooth as TOTL of course. The number of supported languages is mind boggling.
Focus was on open data, languages and auditability.
Their loss function is fancy, not sure about the effects
Re: Swiss AI Initiative (2023)
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is it not written in French? Or Italian? Or Romansh? Because Switzerland has four official languages and English makes it easier for everyone
Not really. It's because the target audience is more academic/scientific rather than the Swiss population at large. In the latter case, it would be in the local languages. The law is relatively clear for this. English is not accepted in Switzerland as a replacement language for the "local" ones, although many people can speak or at least understand some English.
heavy sigh I'm Swiss. I know. What I meant to say is that German is not the default language in Switzerland.
Re: Swiss AI Initiative (2023)
#29Why is this not written in German, I'm afraid to ask?
It's a university in a French speaking region for one.
Not quite: it's a collab between both ETHZ (Zürich, German speaking) and EPFL (Lausanne, French speaking). According to the website, the actual hardware is distributed all over the country (including in the Italian part).