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Zuckerberg says Meta's Llama 3 is really good but no chatbot is sophisticated enough to be an 'existential' threat — yet
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2024
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Meta launched the latest iteration of its AI chatbot on Thursday with Llama 3, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says it's supposed to be really good.
The new model boasts "state-of-the-art" performance on various industry-standard benchmarks and comes with "improved reasoning," according to a company blog post.
"In terms of all of the concerns around the more existential risks, I don't think that anything at the level of what we or others in the field are working on in the next year is really in the ballpark of those types of risks," he told the publication.
It's one reason Zuckerberg feels that the company can continue making Llama open-source or available for the public or researchers to tinker with.
If Meta's model achieves multimodality — meaning the ability to deliver results in various forms of media, including text, images, and video — then that may be a case when the company won't want to make all aspects of its model open-source, Zuckerberg said.
"For example, image generation is one that we're looking at closely Especially in an election year, is that a net positive thing to do?
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