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Meta has built a new language AI–and it’s giving it away for free

• capableweb 4y ago
  > “I applaud the transparency here,” says Emily M. Bender, a computational linguist at the University of Washington Then on https://ai.facebook.com/blog/democratizing-access-to-large-scale-language-models-with-opt-175b/ https://ai.facebook.com/blog/democratizing-access-to-large-s... : > request access to OPT-175B here > Pretrained models are all licensed under the OPT-175B License Agreement. If you want "transparency" and kudos for releasing something "openly", why not just release it actually openly and without some complex license agreement?
• jaskyle 4y ago
  "Meta’s move is the first time that a fully trained large language model will be made available to any researcher who wants to study it." - Is that true? Isn't GPT-2 open source? I mean, I am totally onboard with releasing models like this as open source but Meta isn't the first one to do it...