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        Date: 2022-06-29 19:35:37+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: BLOOM

The following thanks to Tim Smithers <tim.smithers@cantab.net>:

Elizabeth Gibney, "Open-source language AI challenges big tech’s models:
BLOOM aims to address the biases that machine-learning systems inherit 
from the texts they train on." Nature (22 June 2022)
<https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01705-z>

An international team of around 1,000 largely academic volunteers has tried 
to break big tech’s stranglehold on natural-language processing and reduce 
its harms. Trained with US$7-million-worth of publicly funded computing 
time, the BLOOM language model will rival in scale those made by firms 
Google and OpenAI, but will be open-source. BLOOM will also be the first 
model of its scale to be multilingual.


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