Thomas Wolf
Co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face; writes about open models and where he thinks the field is wrong.
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Their wordsEU–INC is the single best thing Europe could do to catch-up in the AI race
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsExtrapolating along these two lines means a fixed level of intelligence gets cheaper every year, fit increasingly more affordable hardware.
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Their wordsThis shift toward low-tech AI will lead to surprisingly rapid societal changes.
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsWhat we'll actually get, in my opinion, is “a country of yes-men on servers” (if we just continue on current trends)
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Their wordsWe're currently building very obedient students, not revolutionaries. This is perfect for today’s main goal in the field of creating great assistants and overly compliant helpers. But until we find a way to incentivize them to question their knowledge and propose ideas that potentially go against past training data, they won't give us scientific revolutions yet.
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Their wordsWe don't need an A+ student who can answer every question with general knowledge. We need a B student who sees and questions what everyone else missed.
- 4 weeks earlier
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Their wordshaving one of the model freely widely available for download and with detailed scientific report renders the whole « close-source arm-race competition » argument artificial and unconvincing in my opinion.
↗🐳 Some notes on "DeepSeek and export control"thomwolf.io 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsOpen-source has many advantages like shared training costs, tunability, control, ownership, privacy but one of its most fundamental virtue in the long term –as AI becomes deeply embedded in our world– will likely be its strong resilience.
↗🐳 Some notes on "DeepSeek and export control"thomwolf.io 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 4 days earlier
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Their wordsIntelligence will be commoditized! The remaining moat will be the quality of the product and how it integrate with co-factors.
- 12 days earlier
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Their wordsAll evals should move to agentic evals in 2025 in my opinion.
- 13 months earlier
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Their wordsGoogle really did miss an opportunity to leapfrog both OpenAI and Meta and regain a place as 👑 of AI by making Gemini open source