Monday, July 04, 2022

The open BLOOM: BigScience 176B parameters language Model is getting ready

The pretraining of this very large language model should be finished any time soon! It is a model developed outside of the big tech companies through the collaboration of a large worldwide community of researchers. Stay tuned!

Beware of possibly significant ideological influences like diversity and inclusivity etc. See the ethical charter. Chinese harmony instead of Western tolerance. A requirement for collective ethical compliance (whatever that means).

"BLOOM (BigScience Language Open-science Open-access Multilingual) is unique not because it’s architecturally different than GPT-3 — it’s actually the most similar of all the above, being also a transformer-based model with 176B parameters (GPT-3 has 175B) —, but because it’s the starting point of a socio-political paradigm shift in AI ...
BLOOM is the culmination of these efforts. After more than a year of collective work that started in January 2021, and training for +3 months on the Jean Zay public French supercomputer, BLOOM is finally ready. It’s the result of the BigScience Research Workshop that comprises the work of +1000 researchers from all around the world and counts on the collaboration and support of +250 institutions, including Hugging Face, IDRIS, GENCI, and the Montreal AI Ethics Institute, among others. 

What they have in common is that they believe technology — and particularly AI — should be open, diverse, inclusive, responsible, and accessible for the benefit of humanity. ...
By having a system that is multilingual from its conception, with the immediate goal of covering the 20 most spoken languages in the world ..."

BLOOM: BigScience 176B Model

BLOOM Is the Most Important AI Model of the Decade (Don't take this title too literally. This article has considerable ideological overtones)

Credits: Last Week in AI

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