⭐ The Future of Open-Source AI: A Sneak Peek with Hailey Schoelkopf from EleutherAI 🔭
Had an incredible conversation with Hailey Schoelkopf, a leading researcher at EleutherAI, where we explored the exciting future of open-source AI for Outerbounds. Before we dove into our fireside chat, we touched on current developments and what she’s most excited about in the rapidly evolving AI space. 🎙
Here’s a little bit about Hailey and what she’s working on:
👩💻 Who she is:
Hailey works at EleutherAI, a nonprofit research lab focused on making large-scale AI, like LLMs, more open and accessible.
🛠️ What she does:
Hailey spends a lot of time maintaining the LM Evaluation Harness, a tool for evaluating AI models. She loves seeing how the open-source community and researchers build on her work to push the field forward. 💡
🌍 What she's excited about for the future:
- New ways of interacting with AI beyond just chat, including multimodal models and tools like molmo and o1.
- Defining model limitations and strengths, and expanding how we use these technologies.
- The rapid evolution of AI and the potential for breakthroughs in the next 6-12 months! ⚡
Check out the full conversation in the comment below! 👇
Hey there, Haley, great to see you again. Yeah, thank you. Thanks for having me. Such a pleasure. So we're about to jump into a fireside chat, but I just wanted to ask you a few questions beforehand. I'd love if you could tell me a bit about who you are and what you do. Yeah, I'm Haley Shelkoff. I work at a Loser I We're a small nonprofit research lab working on being large language models and other large scale AI more open, accessible and providing resources for people like researchers and developers to better understand these models and study them. Amazing and and what do you love about what you do? Yeah, I think it's really great to just have the ability to interface directly with such a huge open source community. I spend a lot of time working on maintaining the LM evaluation harness, which is the library for evals. And it's just really awesome seeing researchers and other open source community members sort of building on your work and Julie benefiting from it. Amazing. As we both know we're working and living in such a rapidly moving and perhaps accelerating space. I'm wondering just what you're excited about in the next 6 to 12 months about the space we work in. Yeah, totally. I think things, yeah, things are changing very quickly. I think I'm excited for like different or new paradigms or interaction with models. Deon, just pure chat, which we're already seeing with things like 01 and multimodal models and really defining what like the limitations of these models are, what they're already really good at, what they might give very good at soon and extending the scope of yeah, what we use these models for and you're coming in on that. Awesome, I'm really excited to jump into this chat. Yeah, sounds great. Thank you for having me again.
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In a recent fireside chat, Hailey Schoelkopf of EleutherAI highlighted the importance of open-source AI, distinguishing between open-source tools and open-weight models. She discussed EleutherAI’s evolution from grassroots efforts to a leader in AI research, the critical role of transparent evaluation, and the potential of multimodal and localized models. Nonprofit contributions, like EleutherAI's, help democratize AI, ensuring that cutting-edge tools remain accessible to diverse communities. Read the highlights here: https://hubs.la/Q02S_2MP0
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