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Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: llm
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: llm |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Aug 2023 21:06:14 -0400 |
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> While I certainly appreciate the effort people are making to produce
> LLMs that are more open than OpenAI (a low bar), I'm not sure if
> providing several gigabytes of model weights in binary format is really
> providing the *source*. It's true that you can still edit these models
> in a sense by fine-tuning them, but you could say the same thing about a
> project that only provided the generated output from GNU Bison, instead
> of the original input to Bison.
I don't think that is valid.
Bison processing is very different from training a neural net.
Incremental retraining of a trained neural net
is the same kind of processing as the original training -- except
that you use other data and it produces a neural net
that is trained differently.
My conclusiuon is that the trained neural net is effectively a kind of
source code. So we don't need to demand the "original training data"
as part of a package's source code. That data does not have to be
free, published, or available.
> In practice though, I think if Emacs were to support communicating with
> LLMs, it would be good if - at minimum - we could direct users to an
> essay explaining the potential ethical/freedom issues with them.
I agree, in principle. But it needs to be an article that
the GNU Project can endorse.
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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: llm, (continued)
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: llm, Daniel Fleischer, 2023/08/17
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: llm, Richard Stallman, 2023/08/18
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: llm, Daniel Fleischer, 2023/08/19
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: llm, Richard Stallman, 2023/08/20
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: llm, Jim Porter, 2023/08/21
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: llm, Andrew Hyatt, 2023/08/21
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: llm, Jim Porter, 2023/08/21
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: llm, Daniel Fleischer, 2023/08/21
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- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: llm, Richard Stallman, 2023/08/17
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: llm, Andrew Hyatt, 2023/08/26
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: llm, Philip Kaludercic, 2023/08/27
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: llm, Richard Stallman, 2023/08/27
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: llm, Andrew Hyatt, 2023/08/27
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: llm, Jim Porter, 2023/08/27
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: llm, Andrew Hyatt, 2023/08/28
- Re: [NonGNU ELPA] New package: llm, Richard Stallman, 2023/08/30