707: Vicuña, Gorilla & Socially Beneficial LLMs with Prof. Joey Gonzalez

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LLM Vicuña, Chatbot Arena, and the race to increase LLM context windows: This episode’s guest Joey Gonzalez talks to Jon Krohn about developing models and platforms that leverage and improve LLMs, as well as the future of AI development and access.

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In this episode you will learn:
• [00:00:00] Introduction
• [00:01:37] Vicuña: How the revolutionary LLM came to be
• [00:07:47] Chatbot Arena: The leading LLM leaderboard
• [00:15:53] Trusting LLM results
• [00:30:11] Gorilla: The open-source ChatGPT plugin alternative
• [00:45:46] About LMSYS and long context windows
• [00:59:20] Open- vs closed-source LLMs: Which is better?
• [01:14:24] Aqueduct
• [01:25:13] Founding GraphLab
• [01:31:22] How AI will positively impact society in the coming decades

Additional materials: https://www.superdatascience.com/707