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Free Dolly: First truly open instruction-tuned LLM

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Re: Free Dolly: First truly open instruction-tuned LLM

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Post by TheObviousOne »

visarga wrote: post #23
IanCal wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't expect so, but as LLMs get better more people want to use them in more places. An openly available LLM for commercial use which is easy to integrate in your existing databricks flow could be very tempting. That then leads to increased use of the platform & hours spent computing, so that's better for them. It also shows how to build and train these things on databricks, so maybe more people will use them to ma…

My hunch is that OpenAI's window of supremacy will be short. Even if they keep being SOTA, the open sourced models will eat away market underneath them. By the next year they will only be able to sell GPT-4 or 5. At some point the open models will be good enough for 99% of use cases.

Not sure at all..

They are siting on gigantic data flywheel of users usages.. (and private access to the best machine that can utilized that data..)

So, IMHO it would be hard to catch with their speed (not in this hype cycle).

Re: Free Dolly: First truly open instruction-tuned LLM

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Post by alsodumb »

nidnogg wrote: post #28

There's some blatant astroturfing from new accounts going on in this thread - I gotta say it's not the best impression

Maybe OP, Data bricks founder, should reply to this comment and answer if he or anyone else in his team paid people to get this post with a not-so-useful-dataset to the top of HN.

Re: Free Dolly: First truly open instruction-tuned LLM

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Post by nidnogg »

summarity wrote: post #38
tornato7 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed, I'm not sure how to summon @dang but the number of databricks shill comments in this thread is absurd.

Yes, this is a cool enough achievement on its own. HN is not the best place for these "testimonials". Unless this is some sort of demo of the LLM itself /s

If this is a demo then it's a really flimsy one showcasing a bit of poor English if anything

Re: Free Dolly: First truly open instruction-tuned LLM

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Post by ibejoeb »

I deal with this stuff daily, so I think it's probably irrationally grinding my gears, but:

>> How do I build a campfire?

> Safety should always come first when starting a campfire.

Hold up: should I touch the fire? It doesn't say.

OK, there's perfectly legitimate advice in the output, like "have water nearby," but give me a break already. They're finetuning for commercial application. If I'm building business tools, I'm not putting kid gloves on it. I don't have time for a lecture every time I need an answer.

You can put a safety model in front of an unencumbered model if you want. We don't need to conflate the two.

Re: Free Dolly: First truly open instruction-tuned LLM

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Post by alsodumb »

SeagullJ wrote: post #16
yawnxyz wrote: post #4

Interesting to see that it's trained on data completely generated by Databricks employees. I wonder how "biased" that makes the data, and how much they spent in terms of lost man hours?

Since databricks has employees all around the world, I expect to see that the data is not biased. But for sure there must be considerable man hours lost. However it shows, how much they are dedicated towards open source contributions.

The only thing this comment and your profile history goes to show is how you work at this company.

Re: Free Dolly: First truly open instruction-tuned LLM

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Post by PurpleRamen »

nidnogg wrote: post #28

There's some blatant astroturfing from new accounts going on in this thread - I gotta say it's not the best impression

WTF? They don't even invest effort in writing good text. This is either some very enthusiastic crowd of workers, who only know twitter and comment-sections, or a very bad marketing-bot. Makes me wonder if something like this often happens here, and I just never see it.

Re: Free Dolly: First truly open instruction-tuned LLM

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Post by alsodumb »

alchemist1e9 wrote: post #47
clukasik wrote: post #5

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Could you expand on what makes it different and a better fit for that situation?

They are probably an employee at this company, check their profile history. The first comment was on a previous DOLLY post and now this one.
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