thx to tech crunch for putting it so concisely: “The secret is using less, but better quality, data. Instead of training on a library of billions of images that can’t possibly all be quality controlled, described, or deduplicated, Ai2 curated and annotated a set of just 600,000.”
AI2’s Molmo shows open source can meet, and beat, closed multimodal models
The common wisdom is that companies like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, with bottomless cash reserves and hundreds of top-tier researchers, are the only ones that can make state-of-the-art foundation model. But as one among them famously noted, they “have…
we released our open multimodal language model Molmo today 🥳 🍝 secret sauce? really really high quality set of image+text pairs, which we'll release openly 🕹️ try it out: molmo.allenai.orgmolmo.allenai.org/bloghuggingface.co/collections/...
adding onto this google scholar issues aren’t limited to generated fake papers this study also investigates google scholar citation count manipulation by posting fake papers & paying services to do the same arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607 rlly need better alternatives
🐠NAACL name change vote should be goin out to ACL members, check email inbox for noreply@electionrunner.com 🐟Proposal is keep NAACL acronym but change from “North American Chapter" to "Nations of the Americas Chapter" 🐙Blog post explaining name change: naacl.org/posts/2024-0...
data isnt cheap 💸🥲 so glad to have opportunity to share my thoughts on training data & how maintaining access to diverse open data is critical for sustaining wider participation in AI research techcrunch.com/2024/06/01/a...
Generative AI improvements are increasingly being made through data curation and collection — not architectural — improvements. Big Tech has an advantage.
👋🏻 bye #ICLR2024#CHI2024@josephc.bsky.social@paopow.bsky.social@jbragg.bsky.social@axz.bsky.social@ai2.bsky.social done w 🥐🍺 all about 🐠🐟 this week!!
I've been reading a lot of AI alignment papers recently, and they made me grouchy. arxiv.org/abs/2405.03699
This article argues that AI Alignment is a type of Human-Centered Computing.