[HN Gopher] Open Assistant: Conversational AI for Everyone
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       Open Assistant: Conversational AI for Everyone
        
       Author : chriskanan
       Score  : 214 points
       Date   : 2023-02-04 14:39 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (open-assistant.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (open-assistant.io)
        
       | O__________O wrote:
       | TLDR: OpenAssistant is a chat-based assistant that understands
       | tasks, can interact with third-party systems, and retrieve
       | information dynamically to do so.
       | 
       | ________
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       | Related video by one of the contributors on how to help:
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       | - https://youtube.com/watch?v=64Izfm24FKA
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       | Source Code:
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       | - https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant
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       | Roadmap:
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       | - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n7IrAOVOqwdYgiYrXc8S...
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       | How you can help / contribute:
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       | - https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant#how-can-you-help
        
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       | BizarreByte wrote:
       | I hope this project goes places. If tools like ChatGPT are the
       | future it is imperative that open source solutions exist
       | alongside them.
        
       | braingenious wrote:
       | Does anybody know the hardware requirements for this?
        
         | coolspot wrote:
         | The model hasn't been trained yet. The goal for it is to fit
         | into "consumer hardware" which likely means 2x3090 (48Gb
         | NVLink) or 3090/4090 (24Gb) on the high end and something like
         | 3080/4080 16Gb on the lower end.
        
       | amelius wrote:
       | We definitely need a way to rate these systems so we can have
       | better expectations.
       | 
       | An IQ test for language models?
        
         | oldstrangers wrote:
         | Some sort of general knowledge skills assessment, grade them on
         | accuracy. Questions / tasks get increasingly more abstract
         | until they become almost subjective.
        
           | KRAKRISMOTT wrote:
           | GMAT? SATs? A ML flavored jeopardy test?
        
           | permo-w wrote:
           | seems like a fool's errand
        
         | k__ wrote:
         | Isn't IQ just size of short time memory and processing speed?
        
           | amelius wrote:
           | No because that would mean that anyone with lots of time and
           | a notepad could become (a slow version of) Einstein.
        
             | prettyStandard wrote:
             | IQ tests are timed. Not everyone could be a slow Einstein,
             | but perhaps you if you had 200-300 years might reach the
             | same solutions Einstein did. If you choose to work on the
             | same problems.
        
               | akomtu wrote:
               | If you are a 5' tall basketball amateur, then even with
               | 300 years of training you won't outplay the top NBA
               | player.
        
               | qup wrote:
               | It's different because to outplay the top NBA player you
               | can't do it slowly. (You can compute slowly, though)
        
             | k__ wrote:
             | Maybe, the correlation isn't linear. Or Einstein USP wasn't
             | just his IQ.
        
             | mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote:
             | I'm not convinced they couldn't. Depends what you mean by
             | Einstein. You won't be formulating GR, but an IQ test could
             | be doable.
             | 
             | At least if you have enough IQ to figure out how to solve
             | IQ test problems on paper. Which shouldn't be that hard.
        
           | tux3 wrote:
           | It is more like the ability to make sense of things.
           | 
           | But intelligence is hard to measure. Always plenty of room
           | for everyone to disagree.
        
             | k__ wrote:
             | I see.
             | 
             | I just heard about a test with a box with lights and a
             | buttons, and pressing the buttons faster would correlate to
             | higher IQ.
        
               | grugagag wrote:
               | What you're describing sounds like a way to measure
               | reaction time. By that measure I suspect gamers would
               | rank highest.
        
         | pixl97 wrote:
         | The problem with IQ in human modeling is 1) it's just a one
         | dimensional number, and 2) it changes as the average human gets
         | smarter or dumber.
         | 
         | However we rate these systems in the future we must not make
         | the mistakes of the past and think 1 number solutions are good
         | for anything.
         | 
         | For example you can have an exceptionally 'intelligent' system
         | that is misaligned with human intention.
        
       | rahimnathwani wrote:
       | The other thread has more comments:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34654937
        
       | jdarchitect wrote:
       | [flagged]
        
       | bilater wrote:
       | Used a Tailwind UI Template. Bullish.
        
       | swyx wrote:
       | @dang - duplicate of
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34654937
        
         | i_like_apis wrote:
         | No this is a different url. If you merge or adjust urls, use
         | this one, which is the face of the project and links to the
         | other.
        
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