X-CGP-ClamAV-Result: CLEAN X-VirusScanner: Niversoft's CGPClamav Helper v1.25a (ClamAV 1.2.1/27199) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=simple/simple; d=cni.org; s=mail; bh=gJdO+lWvdwVft5FhRvu9KSjQLi3bvGGlRA4WfnkCEMo=; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:Subject:From:Message-ID :Date:To:Sender; b=Sv3dKvaMSmUefTAbu+ItQHKcPcB8GvtA/B2tRKzMs7z5OiKFGkXCxV5cLb Qgayc0R2ochHvZcEMgxTZTtmw511IOm8hGrKIeUJYT3rptzu+3Ic23xqdYCbpJnTUuDlENpx2ZeJ+ y0NrXmBTsDXQGmyO5LBN22vjk+rRZuRNf7So= Return-Path: Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 15:30:00 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [69.248.123.21] (account clifford@cni.org HELO [192.168.50.171]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 7.1.4) with ESMTPSA id 41753677 for cni-announce@cni.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:18:43 -0500 X-Original-Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:18:42 -0500 From: Cliff Lynch X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org X-Original-Message-ID: <20240228001842796205.7660e927@cni.org> Subject: Stanford HAI Paper on "Societal Implications of Open Foundation Models" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: GyazMail version 1.7.1 The Stanford University Center for Human-Centered Ai has just published an important paper titled "Societal Implications of Open Foundation Models" which covers a number of topics but also helps to clarify questions about what constitute "open" foundation (or large language) models, which is a very vexing question; the intertwining of code, process and data leads to very different ideas about what it means to be open when compared to historical open source community practices. Strongly recommended. Announcement of paper https://hai.stanford.edu/news/societal-impact-open-foundation-models Summary of paper https://crfm.stanford.edu/open-fms/ and the paper proper https://crfm.stanford.edu/open-fms/paper.pdf Clifford Lynch Director, CNI