INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Facebook-owner Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) is opening up access to a large language model for artificial intelligence research, the social
media company said on Tuesday.Meta said its model was the first 175-billion-parameter language model to be made available to the broader AI
research community.Large language models& are natural language processing systems which are trained on massive volumes of text, and are
capable of answering reading comprehension questions or generating new text.In a blog post, Meta said the release of its &Open Pretrained
Transformer (OPT-175B)& model would improve researchers& abilities to understand how large language models work.Meta said restrictions on
access to such models had been &hindering progress on efforts to improve their robustness and mitigate known issues such as bias and
toxicity&.Artificial intelligence technology, which is a key area of research and development for several major online platforms, can
perpetuate humans& societal biases around issues like race and gender
Some researchers have concerns about the harms that can be spread through large language models.Meta said it &hoped to increase the
diversity of voices defining the ethical considerations of such technologies.The tech giant said to prevent misuse and &maintain integrity,&
it was releasing the model under a noncommercial license to focus on research use cases.Meta said access to the model would be granted to
academic researchers and people affiliated with government, civil society and academic organizations, as well as industry research
The release will include the pretrained models and the code to train and use them.The post Facebook-owner Meta opens access to AI large
language model first appeared on Ariana News.
