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Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, unlike the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals, which involves consciousness and emotionality. The distinction between the former and the latter categories is often revealed by the acronym chosen.
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The Llama licence isn't open source because of the restrictions it has.
Yeah more or less open source to these guys is just like saying they didn't close out any parts of the code...which they didn't but beyond that I agree with you totally.
What are the restrictions?
Are there any open source models people would normally use?
https://opensource.org/blog/metas-llama-2-license-is-not-open-source
The actual licence is here: https://ai.meta.com/llama/license/
The issue is that "open source" is a term for computer software. And it doesn't really apply to other things. But people use it regardless. With software, it means you share the recipe, the program code. With machine learning models, there isn't really such a thing. It's a pile of numbers (the weights) that are the important thing. They get shared in this case. But you can't reproduce them. For that you'd need the dataset that went in (which Meta doesn't share because lots of that is copyrighted and they have several court cases running because they just stole the texts and said it's alright.) But what open source allows (amongst other things) is to build upon things and modify them. And that can be done with the models to a certain degree. They can be fine-tuned and incorporated in custom projects. In the end they (Meta) want to frame things a certain way and be the good guys. But the term still doesn't really mean what it's supposed to mean.
There are other models with other licenses. There are Apache-licensed models available. There are models which do or don't allow for commercial usage. We also have some with the datasets and everything available. But those aren't state of the art anymore.
Thanks. I know all this; I was just lazy and continued to use the terminology used in the post or thread.
So, what are the restrictions? That you can't use them commercially, for example?
And if an average Joe wants to re-create a "for personal use" Jarvis, what would they use today?
I haven't looked it up. If it's the same as before there aren't that many restrictions. You can't use it commercially if you have like more than 700 million users. So basically if you're Google, Amazon or OpenAI. Everyone else is allowed to use it commercially. They have some stupid rules how you have to call your derivatives. And they're not liable. You can read the license if you're interested.
What people would use? They'd use exactly this. Probably one of the smaller variants. This is state of the art. Or you'd use some of the competing models from a few weeks or months back. Mistral, ... You'd certainly not train anything from ground up. Because it costs millions of dollars in electricity and hardware (or cost for renting hardware).
Thank you!