Remembering Alan Turing, died on 7 June 1954, victim of prejudice and ignorance 💔 He was a mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist and is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artiticial intelligence. He was also homosexual in a time when homosexuality was illegal. After his conviction he was given a choice between chemical castration and prison. He chose chemical castration, and later chose to kill himself. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a VC-backed startup in possession of an overblown valuation and zero product market fit, must be in want of an LLM.
If you live in the UK or USA, you need to understand one thing about the coming election:
You need to vote defensively.
Neither of the main parties are appealing. But if you don't vote for the lesser evil you may end up helping a totalitarian horror get elected.
Hold your nose and goddamn vote, dammit. THEN go on protests. Because if you don't vote for the lesser evil, the victor will welcome your protests with bullets.
The prize for political purity this time round is a shallow grave.
The open source debate in #ML ( #AI ) is absolutely irrelevant unless all the training data are also made open. Tech reporters are getting lost again because #ML vendors are misleading them. #LLM#MLsec
@cigitalgem Indeed, and by the way, there is a current effort from @osi to define what is #opensource#ai and some people are pointing out that the data must be released as well:
"As OpenAI trains its new model, its new Safety and Security committee will work to hone policies and processes for safeguarding the technology, the company said. The committee includes Mr. Altman, as well as OpenAI board members Bret Taylor, Adam D’Angelo and Nicole Seligman. The company said that the new policies could be in place in the late summer or fall."
