Stanford Index: Transparency of AI Models
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Key Recent Developments
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The world’s biggest AI models aren’t very transparent, Stanford study says
What: A comprehensive assessment of the transparency of foundation model developers has been released and it has been found that there is significant room for improvement across all actors. Performance was particularly low across "Data, labor, and compute.?"All developers' scores sum to just?20%,?17%, and?17%?of the total available points for data, labor, and compute."
Key Takeaway: Performance measurement is an effective approach to drive improvement and this is exactly what the release of this index can drive. Independent standards such as these have the potential to make impact but that potential may only be realized as the index establishes itself further in the eyes of consumers and regulators.
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Mustafa Suleyman and Eric Schmidt [DeepMind/Inflection AI cofounder & Google CEO]: We need an AI equivalent of the IPCC
What: Suleyman and Schmidt argue that in the rapidly developing field of AI, even those building the technology struggle to keep up, leaving regulators with little hope of effectively keeping pace. They suggest then that an independent, expert-led body should be established which is empowered to objectively inform governments about the current state of AI capabilities and make evidence/science-based predictions about what’s coming.
The goal: An International Panel on AI Safety could offer an objective body to help shape protocols and norms
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Generative AI in Google Search
What: Google are introducing Search Generative Experience (SGE) enabling you to create images from a text prompt, in what is a direct response to Bings generative capabilities powered by OpenAI. The initial prompts will also be augmented through generative text to create multiple variants of the starting image created (see graphic above).
Key Takeaway: As foundation models increasingly become commoditised, distribution and user access becomes a major lever for AI value capture. Who has more distribution than Google Search with >100,000 searches each second and this movement represents a huge opportunity to introduce generative capabilities to many users for the first time. Thereby owning their present and future experience with the technology.
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Cool companies found this week
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Baichuan Intelligent Technology - Recently raised $300M from Alibaba, Tencent and Xiaomi. The Chinese company has rolled out numerous LLMs, including four open-source models that have been downloaded more than 6 million times, and two proprietary models known as Baichuan-53B and Baichuan2-53B.
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