LLaMA 3.1 is out and it will change everything

[John Clark]

I think this is a super important day, it's certainly Eliezer Yudkowsky's nightmare scenario, nobody is going to be able to put the toothpaste back into the tube now. Meta has just released the AI program LLaMA 3.1 and it's just as good as the best that has come out of OpenAI even though it only has 405 billion parameters and GPT4 has 1.6 trillion; Meta made a more efficient program that can get more out of less. But what's really revolutionary is that it's completely open source, and not just the code but for the all important weights as well.  They've also released a much smaller 8 billion parameter model that is small enough to run on your cell phone yet is damn good,  it would be considered the smartest AI program in the world just a couple of years ago.

This news kind of puts things into perspective for me, it makes the current state of American politics look pretty trivial. 

LLaMA 405b is here! Open-source is now FRONTIER!

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