Development of open-source AI models just got a major boost with the launch of the AI Alliance, a super-team made up of companies, developers, scientists, academics, and spearheaded by Meta and IBM, owners of Red Hat. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
While governments around the world wrestle with ways to regulate AI to ensure development is safe, responsible, and not in going to lead to any sci-fi-esque doomsday scenarios, the newly-announced AI Alliance is aiming to offer an industry-led answer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Ai Alliance says it is \u201cfocused on fostering an open community and enabling developers and researchers to accelerate responsible innovation in AI while ensuring scientific rigor, trust, safety, security, diversity and economic competitiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Open-source AI models have a clear advantage over private models powering the likes of OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT and Google\u2019s Bard. Anyone is free to contribute, which helps accelerate development and innovation, and because the code is freely available, anyone can vet it at any time to assuage safety, security, and other concerns.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
And if things are amiss, open issues, contribute code, or make noise. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The AI Alliance is pooling its collective expertise, resources, nous, and ideas to aid, support, augment, develop, and advance open source AI, not just directly models, but assistive tech like benchmarking tools, new hardware, software integration, etc, in as many areas as it can, as many ways as it can.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
It may read a trite optimistic or a bit wishy-washy, but the combined clout of the 50+ orgs and companies involved (see the list lower down) means there\u2019s the necessary muscle here to make a major impact. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Or to quote Nick Clegg, president of Global Affairs at Meta: \u201cWe believe it\u2019s better when AI is developed openly \u2013 more people can access the benefits, build innovative products and work on safety.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The AI Alliance is planning to introduce new educational resources that will aid users, organizations, and policymakers in understanding the nuances, benefits, and possible dangers of AI as its development progresses. <\/p>\n IBM and Meta have teamed up with over 50 partners, including The Linux Foundation, Intel, Red Hat, and even NASA. This group a veritable list of influential players from sectors like technology, government, and education:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n OpenAI, builders of ChatGPT, and Microsoft, an investor in OpenAI, are notably absent from the initial membership list. Google is also missing, which is surprising given their involvement in the industry. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Do you want to know more about the AI Alliance?<\/p>\n Visit the brand new thealliance.ai<\/a> webpage to gain insights on its purposes and objectives, or peruse the Red Hat press release<\/a> for more pointed information and remarks from certain founding members.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Development of open-source AI models just got a major boost with the launch of the AI Alliance, a super-team made up of companies, developers, scientists, academics, and spearheaded by Meta and IBM, owners of Red Hat. While governments around the world wrestle with ways to regulate AI to ensure development is safe, responsible, and not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,102,4,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-chatgpt","category-news","category-red-hat"],"yoast_head":"\n\n