Philipp Schmid News Today

If current trends continue, new AI iterations would have to bring astounding benefits to justify the costs involved in training them, experts say

Hugging Face tech lead Philipp Schmid posted yesterday that users can now create custom chatbots in “two clicks” using Hugging Chat Assistant. Users’ creations are then publicly available. Schmid directly compares the feature to OpenAI’s GPTs feature, and adds they can use “any available open LLM, like Llama2 or Mixtral.”

Hugging Face users training AI models will also be able to tap hardware capabilities offered with Google Cloud, including TPUs, A3 VMs, powered by Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs and C3 VMs.

During most of 2023 we highlighted one updated rebuttal per week, output from our quite productive Rebuttal Update Factory. Cranky Uncle learned a few new languages during the year and we could add several handbook translations.  But there was a lot more to keep us busy during the year! As in previous recaps, this one is divided into several sections:

Meta's new, open-source generative A.I. tool is the latest entrant into a crowded field. Here's what it's like to use it.

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Various authors - Those who now tolerate a Russian victory also tolerate a victory for both global and “domestic” fossil and commodity-based capital, which is closely intertwined with the Russian fossil and extractive sectors. Therefore, a new anti-militarist movement must uphold solidarity with the civil as well as armed resistance of the Ukrainian people, and with the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian leftists who oppose the Putin regime’s war.

“Those who now tolerate a Russian victory also tolerate a victory for both global and “domestic” fossil and commodity-based capital, which is closely intertwined with the Russian fossil and extractive sectors. Therefore, a new anti-militarist movement must uphold solidarity with the civil as well as armed resistance of the Ukrainian people, and with the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian leftists who oppose the Putin regime's war.”

On June 9, Junge Welt published an article advocating an "anti-militarist defeatism" and the abandonment of Ukraine's military resistance to the Russian war of occupation.[1] We take their article as an opportunity for a fundamental response about a necessary anti-imperialist, ecosocialist perspective committed to global solidarity.