How EleutherAI Trains and Releases LLMs: Interview with Stella Biderman
Episode description
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/
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