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giadapΒ  authored a paper 13 days ago
Bridging the Gap: Integrating Ethics and Environmental Sustainability in AI Research and Practice
sashaΒ  authored a paper 21 days ago
Fully Autonomous AI Agents Should Not be Developed
evijitΒ  authored a paper 21 days ago
Fully Autonomous AI Agents Should Not be Developed
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BrigitteTousiΒ 
posted an update 8 days ago
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AI agents are transforming how we interact with technology, but how sustainable are they? 🌍

Design choices β€” like model size and structure β€” can massively impact energy use and cost. βš‘πŸ’° The key takeaway: smaller, task-specific models can be far more efficient than large, general-purpose ones.

πŸ”‘ Open-source models offer greater transparency, allowing us to track energy consumption and make more informed decisions on deployment. 🌱 Open-source = more efficient, eco-friendly, and accountable AI.

Read our latest, led by @sasha with assists from myself + @yjernite πŸ€—
https://huggingface.co/blog/sasha/ai-agent-sustainability
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clemΒ 
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clemΒ 
posted an update 11 days ago
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Llama models (arguably the most successful open AI models of all times) just represented 3% of total model downloads on Hugging Face in March.

People and media like stories of winner takes all & one model/company to rule them all but the reality is much more nuanced than this!

Kudos to all the small AI builders out there!
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clemΒ 
posted an update 13 days ago
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Now in Enterprise Hub organizations, you can centralize your billing not only for HF usage but also inference through our inference partners.

Will prevent some headaches for your finance & accounting teams haha (so feel free to share that with them).
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giadapΒ 
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clemΒ 
posted an update 14 days ago
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Before 2020, most of the AI field was open and collaborative. For me, that was the key factor that accelerated scientific progress and made the impossible possibleβ€”just look at the β€œT” in ChatGPT, which comes from the Transformer architecture openly shared by Google.

Then came the myth that AI was too dangerous to share, and companies started optimizing for short-term revenue. That led many major AI labs and researchers to stop sharing and collaborating.

With OAI and sama now saying they're willing to share open weights again, we have a real chance to return to a golden age of AI progress and democratizationβ€”powered by openness and collaboration, in the US and around the world.

This is incredibly exciting. Let’s go, open science and open-source AI!
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clemΒ 
posted an update 17 days ago
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What's this cool purple banner haha 😢😢😢
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clemΒ 
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giadapΒ 
posted an update 20 days ago
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We've all become experts at clicking "I agree" without a second thought. In my latest blog post, I explore why these traditional consent models are increasingly problematic in the age of generative AI.

I found three fundamental challenges:
- Scope problem: how can you know what you're agreeing to when AI could use your data in different ways?
- Temporality problem: once an AI system learns from your data, good luck trying to make it "unlearn" it.
- Autonomy trap: the data you share today could create systems that pigeonhole you tomorrow.

Individual users shouldn't bear all the responsibility, while big tech holds all the cards. We need better approaches to level the playing field, from collective advocacy and stronger technological safeguards to establishing "data fiduciaries" with a legal duty to protect our digital interests.

Available here: https://huggingface.co/blog/giadap/beyond-consent
sashaΒ 
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clemΒ 
posted an update 26 days ago
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Should we assemble affordable open-source robots at Hugging Face for the community. Would you buy them? At what price?
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clemΒ 
posted an update 26 days ago
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Nice new space to see how fast your personal or organization followers are growing on HF:
julien-c/follow-history

As you can see, I still have more followers than @julien-c even if he's trying to change this by building such cool spaces 😝😝😝
clemΒ 
posted an update about 1 month ago
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We just crossed 1,500,000 public models on Hugging Face (and 500k spaces, 330k datasets, 50k papers). One new repository is created every 15 seconds. Congratulations all!
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BrigitteTousiΒ 
posted an update about 1 month ago
BrigitteTousiΒ 
posted an update about 1 month ago
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Regardless of X being down or not, so glad I can rely on HF Posts for AI news β€οΈπŸ€—
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clemΒ 
posted an update about 1 month ago
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I was chatting with @peakji , one of the cofounders of Manu AI, who told me he was on Hugging Face (very cool!).

He shared an interesting insight which is that agentic capabilities might be more of an alignment problem rather than a foundational capability issue. Similar to the difference between GPT-3 and InstructGPT, some open-source foundation models are simply trained to 'answer everything in one response regardless of the complexity of the question' - after all, that's the user preference in chatbot use cases. Just a bit of post-training on agentic trajectories can make an immediate and dramatic difference.

As a thank you to the community, he shared 100 invite code first-come first serve, just use β€œHUGGINGFACE” to get access!
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clemΒ 
posted an update about 1 month ago