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The Retort AI Podcast

Everyone wants fair benchmarks, but do you even lift?

Dec 15, 2023
In this episode, they cover a wide range of topics including open-source AI research, the hype around new AI models, the relation between power levels in Dragon Ball Z and benchmarking, the impact of Twitter on academic culture, the future of Hugging Face, groundbreaking experiments on fluids and gases under pressure, and the significance of size in Godzilla movies.
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Quick takeaways

  • The lack of a clear governance structure and potential conflicting interests raise questions about the future direction of the AI Alliance, a collection of organizations interested in advancing open source AI.
  • The need for more responsible and accurate representations of AI technologies is emphasized due to the lack of transparency and adherence to reality in AI demos, which often misrepresent the capabilities of AI models.

Deep dives

European Heaven and European Hell

In European heaven, all the cooks are Italian, all the cops are English, all the lovers are French, and everything's run by the Germans. In European hell, all the cooks are British, all the people are French, and everything's run by the Italians.

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