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Imagine the potential that free and open models like Stable FreeWilly or Llama 2 could unlock for social entrepreneurs and nonprofits. However, would this approach be simpler and more effective than connecting to OpenAI or any other private paid service?
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🇺🇸 - Frontier Model Forum - “Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI announce that the Biden-Harris Administration has secured voluntary commitments from these companies to help move toward safe, secure and transparent development” of the so-called “frontier AI” models - read here (White House) and here (OpenAI)
♺ - “Materials Nexus raises £2 million seed to discover clean climate material” (Techcrunch)
🫶 - The second issue of SustAIn Magazine (covering sustainable AI, open-source initiatives, and CO2 avoidance) for March 2023 - “SustAIn” is a joint project by AlgorithmWatch, the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW), and the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Technical University of Berlin - read here in PDF
🏥 - “AI methods and their application to health and prevention using open data” - PhD thesis of Juan Miguel Lavista Ferres, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms Integrative Neurophysiology - read here
🔥 - What about fine tuning an open source LLM in Maori indigenous language? Paris Marx from Tech Won’t Save Us was joined by Keoni Mahelona, the Chief Technology Officer at Te Hiku Media - listen here
🔬 - “Sustainable AI: AI for sustainability and the sustainability of AI“ - February 2021 paper of Aimee van Wynsberghe published in AI and Ethics - read here
🇺🇳 - Organized by ITU & more than 40 United Nations sisters agency, the “AI for Good Global Summit 2023” just took place in Switzerland, all the keynotes and news are available here
🩺 - Medical machine learning (MML): “Responsible and Regulatory Conform Machine Learning for Medicine: A Survey of Challenges and Solutions“ - read here
⚖️ - In his paper “Artificial Intelligence, the Brazilian judiciary and some conundrums,” Eduardo Villa Coimbra Campos, a Judge at the Court of Justice of the State of Paraná, Brazil, points out that “In Brazil, AI has already been adopted in at least half of the Brazilian courts, with at least 47 having AI programs and systems in use or under development, including the Supreme Court, and the Superior Court of Justice.” - read here
💚 - “What is the environmental footprint of artificial intelligence?“ - 1h20"‘ video of the workshop by OECD for COP27 Sharm-el-Sheik (Nov 2022) - see here
🗄️ - “Open Data on GitHub: Unlocking the Potential of AI” - research paper (June 2023) about the world’s largest platform for collaborative software development, with over 100 million users, 800 million open data files, totaling 142 terabytes of data - read here (PDF)
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