ANTHOLOGY — Open source AI (Changelog Interviews #541)
This week on The Changelog we're taking you to the hallway track of The Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit North America 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Today’s anthology episode features: Beyang Liu (Co-founder and CTO at Sourcegraph), Denny Lee (Developer Advocate at Databricks), and Stella Biderman (Executive Director and Head of Research at EleutherAI). Special thanks to our friends at GitHub for sponsoring us to attend this conference as part of Maintainer Month.
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- 0:00 This week on The Changelog
- 1:44 Sponsor: DevCycle
- 4:38 Start the show!
- 5:46 We met Beyang 10 years ago!
- 6:08 The mission of Sourcegraph
- 7:22 Adam still Googles, just less
- 8:30 Plugins make models interesting
- 9:35 When did you start thinking about this?
- 12:16 This is a "Eureka!" momement in time
- 13:11 The gospel of text based input
- 15:44 Is this the future interface of Sourcegraph?
- 17:21 Iterating the interface
- 17:59 How can you access Cody?
- 18:27 Cody is open source
- 20:13 How does it get code intelligence?
- 21:58 What about privacy?
- 26:11 GPT for X
- 26:53 Cody vs Copilot
- 29:25 Open source + model agnostic
- 31:22 What's next?
- 33:19 How high up the stack can AI tooling go?
- 36:07 Is this a step change to plateau?
- 38:21 The ultimate flattener
- 42:56 Will AI awallow all of programing?
- 45:52 Sponsor: Sentry
- 50:08 We're fine-tuned
- 50:51 JIT conference presenter
- 52:32 This time 4 weeks ago
- 53:54 Let's generate our own data
- 55:05 All 15,000 Q&A data is open
- 56:12 Verbose is not always desirable
- 56:42 I want my own Dolly 2.0
- 58:14 How did you collect the Q&A data?
- 1:00:39 We thought we'd need more data
- 1:01:40 Dolly proved it could be done
- 1:03:24 Google's leaked memo
- 1:06:06 Databricks' play in this chess game
- 1:08:45 Turning AI on our transcripts
- 1:11:03 Chain or foundational model?
- 1:12:42 Sponsor: Rocky Linux
- 1:15:19 The base layer
- 1:16:27 What should the world know?
- 1:17:40 Where does the money come from?
- 1:18:13 Training LLMs is NOT that expensive
- 1:22:07 Focused on open source AI research
- 1:25:49 Interpreting LLMs
- 1:28:30 Influencing the properties of the model
- 1:31:40 Do you have fear of where this is going?
- 1:32:58 Connecting with Stella and team
- 1:34:07 Stella's news source is their Discord server
- 1:36:22 Outro
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