@penuelist_ Tbh by most women’s logic, we :
Shouldn’t tell kids not to talk to strangers
Shouldn’t tell tourists to watch their valuables
Should remove those “hi jack hotspot “signs
Etc…
Rather tell kidnappers to stop
Tell thieves to stop
Etc
It’s BOTH but the 2nd is harder to control
$40,000 worth of GPUs
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗔: the largest African language model ever trained from scratch, at 1.5 billion parameters. Not a fine tune, this was trained from the ground up for Africa. 🌍
Trained on 12 African languages, it beats models from Google, Meta, Alibaba and HuggingFace on African language modelling and translation while being up to 8x smaller.
𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗔 doesn't belong to us. The weights are open and free to use commercially, so researchers can build on a base that doesn't treat African languages as an afterthought.
Weights in the comments.
Thanks to @UNDP, @AIHub4SD and CINECA for the GPUs and the support. None of this happens without them.
@itshaquiba It’s like fruity loops and music production
Coders have to let go of the EGO part
At the end of the day kids in their bedrooms will build the best stuff and it’s not a bad thing
@mybroadband He’s just reading,
no idea what’s potting
Sure, he’s not an engineer but the main issue is anything written down, he’ll read so controlling him is too easy.
Ai is a major threat by the way
@nicos_ai Adobe’s problem is moving like block buster or KODAK in the 90s
They’ve had sooo much time to anticipate and mitigate this but the best they could come up with is Firefly
@Ndlombango “We shine because they hate us,
floss 'cause they degrade us
We tryna buy back our 40 acres
And for that paper, look how low we'll stoop
Even if you in a Benz, you still a nigga in a coupe”
Kanye west- All falls down
@kanyewest