How transparent are large language models?
Last Updated on November 5, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Salvatore Raieli
Originally published on Towards AI.
Stanford proposes an index to measure LLM transparency, and the results are not encouraging
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Stanford measured how transparent companies are true their Large Language Models (LLMs) and other foundation models.
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