Zuckerberg's Bold Vision: Open-Source AI Leading the Future

Do you agree? Is open-source AI the right path forward? If not, why?

Been using Linux over 25 years. 15 years as my desktop. It's great to be free.

Concerns about Zuckerberg's track record with social media are valid. The Cambridge Analytica scandal highlighted the potential for misuse of data and technology. As AI becomes more powerful, the stakes are even higher. Ensuring robust ethical guidelines, regulatory oversight, and continuous community engagement will be crucial to harnessing the benefits of open-source AI while minimizing risks.

I've been running Llama 3.1 8B on my 36 GB M3 Max MBP. It's a game changer. Consistently follows the system message and handles json data extraction. I was never able to get the other tiny models like phi, mistral, orca, dolphin, etc. to do this sort of work.

Apple died with Steve Jobs AFAIC!

Facebook was free to use because I was the product and not the customer. That could be why it wasn't the experience I wanted. I wonder if this will just be the same go around.

Major tech companies need a major overhaul of the CEOs

I think the real game changer with open source models is that eventually, they can be integrated into other tools, apps, games and other software far better than what closed source online services can. Throw in that being open source allows developers to custom make a A.I. model for their specific needs on an app or game and it's easy to see the advantage that can offer, not to mention that it would be far more tightly integrated into the software than online models could ever be. On top of this, there's the trust issue, as A.I. become better and more capable, I suspect more of us will want to use it on a day-to-day basis on almost anything we want, that could become a major privacy and security concern for a lot of us with online models with data being sent back and forth, and that concern is only going to get a lot worse as A.I. models have a long term memory that can adapt and change to your habits at a personal level, there's no way I can see the majority of us wanting to use an online model as A.I. really matures, and if that isn't enough, there's robotics, eventually we could have them around the house and in society, and again, that's too big of a privacy and security concern to even think about using the online models. About a year ago, I was thinking that the online models were the way to go because of the computing power needed, basically, I thought it would take far longer to have this kind of quality running locally on our own computers, but the pace of development of these smaller open source models has been a lot faster than I expected, and computing hardware is only going to get more powerful as well as small A.I. models will continue to get better, and because of all this, I was convinced enough about a year ago that the future of A.I. is open source and where you can run it locally on your own hardware, and because of that, I don't bother watching videos or reading articles on closed source online models any more, unless a game changer happens on one of them.

Don't be fooled that Zuck has any motivation besides his own enrichment and prestige. I can't think of anyone worse to lead us into the AI era given his track record with developing technology that benefits humanity. Remember that you can't share secrets with your friends without also sharing it with your enemies.

"Riding the rail to the city cost $10. A round trip ticket cost $20. A man hands $20 to the ticket agent without saying a word and recieves a round trip ticket. How did the ticket agent know that the man wanted a round trip ticket and not change?" (he used two $10s)

the open source models will lead to an explosion of closed models though

Hey @Matthew Berman where does this new LLama version 3.1 fit in your Ai stack for local OSS development? Does your Ai stack still INCLUDE RouteLLM per "achieves 90% GPT4o Quality AND 80% CHEAPER" ?

Just like fb is free, Because you are the product in the grand scheme of things.

It just dawned on me that Zuckerberg is to open AI what Napster was to Metallica😅😅😅

This was a great vid.. Welll done and thank you.

It concerns me greatly that huge corporations are in control of this tech. This will satiate people who are worried. Companies will NOT do things for anyone but themselves. There is always a catch.

I think open source AI is absolutely the best way forward, not only for the reasons mentioned, but because it's the best way to make sure AI is used to benefit people rather than just a few big corporations. Power disparity is one of the best predictors for abuse of power, so if big companies are the only ones with the power multiplier that AI is, then they will absolutely abuse that power. Everyone having approximately the same AI capabilities is the best way to keep it truly beneficial to everyone rathar just a few

Mark Zuckerberg says the software is open to anyone, but that's not entirely true. If you have a big platform with over 700 million user's monthly user, you need special permission to use it, and the company can lower the monthly user cap to whatever number they want any time. Given Mark Zuckerberg's past mistakes, people are right to wonder what he's really trying to do with this model. His rebrand has been really forced

I'm fascinated by the questions around increasing costs of training models versus return on making them freely available.

Regards, Matthew. 👍 Excellent Chanel. Thank you for your thoughtful analysis of Zuk's post.