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This Week in AI: When ‘open source’ isn’t so open
In this edition of This Week in AI, TechCrunch's AI column, we dive into the definition of 'open source' as it relates to AI projects like Meta's Llama.
One pertinent unresolved question is whether copyright, the foundational IP mechanism open source licensing is based on, can be applied to the various components and pieces of an AI project, in particular a model’s inner scaffolding (e.g. ). Don’t underestimate the power of LLMs in matters of persuasion, West warned: “In the context of the upcoming US elections, people are concerned because that’s where this kind of technology is always first battle tested. The interview is actually regarding a paper in Science published earlier this month, in which they propose that advanced AIs capable of acting strategically to achieve their goals, which they call “long-term planning agents,” may be impossible to test.
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