📯 Upcoming #GeneralElections2024 present an opportunity for UK Gov to support development & maintenance of OSS used widely in research & innovation, following examples such as Sovereign Tech Fund in 🇩🇪

👇🏼We propose UK Gov establishes an OSS Fund (£12.5/y). Let us know what you think!

📣 NEWS: our very own Cailean Osborne has contributed to a new call for the UK Government to establish an OSS Fund, similar to Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund. This fund aims to support digital public goods used in research and industry, fostering innovation through open source software.

Google, who massively benefits from Python, stops investing in its maintenance and improvement!? 😱

Is that true, Jeff Dean (@🏡)? How is that justified?
Digital commons, as OSS, work only if all pitch in, in particular the privileged.

🔥 Yet another mic drop from Hannah Rose Kirk: PRISM, an alignment dataset feat. sociodemographics & stated preferences from 1.5k ppl from 75 countries who gave 68k responses in 8k convos. Available on GitHub & HF. Kudos to Hannah & team for their excellent work 👏🏼👏🏼

Published in Nature Machine Intelligence today, our new article explores the trade-offs of personalised alignment in large language models ⚖️ Personalisation has potential to democratise decisions over how LLMs behave, but brings its own set of risks...
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A very sad day for technology as yet another an amazingly impactful organization folds 🥺

.NTIA recently closed a policy consultation on openly available AI models. Now that I’ve recovered from the writing sprint, here are a few takeaways:

In support of developers building AI in the open, we submitted a filing responding to the NTIA request for comment on the risks, benefits, and policy implications of widely available model weights. Here’s what we said👇github.blog/2024-04-10-hel…

What role do books play in training AI models & how might digitized books be made widely accessible for the purposes of training #AI ? Written in collab w/ Creative Commons & Proteus Strategies, our report maps possible paths forward: openfuture.eu/publication/to… #DigitalCommons 🧵1/4

Today, Gen AI Commons launches the LF AI & Data Outreach Survey which is designed to help us better understand the community’s insights and perspectives on #opensource and #generativeAI .✔️

🔗 Learn more and take the survey: hubs.la/Q02pgQG10

This is probably the best thing I've read about AI in the UK ever. Outstanding.
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We've just released the Model Openness Framework for promoting the completeness & openness of 'open' AI models based on principles of #openscience #opensource #opendata #openaccess . We hope folks find it useful! With Matt White Ibrahim Haddad, Ph.D. et al arxiv.org/abs/2403.13784