How EleutherAI Trains and Releases LLMs: Interview with Stella Biderman
On this episode, we’re joined by Stella Biderman, Executive Director at EleutherAI and Lead Scientist - Mathematician at Booz Allen Hamilton.EleutherAI is a grassroots collective that enables open-source AI research and focuses on the development and interpretability of large language models (LLMs).We discuss:- How EleutherAI got its start and where it's headed.- The similarities and differences between various LLMs.- How to decide which model to use for your desired outcome.- The benefits and challenges of reinforcement learning from human feedback.- Details around pre-training and fine-tuning LLMs.- Which types of GPUs are best when training LLMs.- What separates EleutherAI from other companies training LLMs.- Details around mechanistic interpretability.- Why understanding what and how LLMs memorize is important.- The importance of giving researchers and the public access to LLMs.Stella Biderman - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stellabiderman/EleutherAI - https://www.linkedin.com/company/eleutherai/Resources:- https://www.eleuther.ai/Thanks for listening to the Gradient Dissent podcast, brought to you by Weights & Biases. If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review to help get the word out about the show. And be sure to subscribe so you never miss another insightful conversation.#OCR #DeepLearning #AI #Modeling #ML