Re: Fwd: AI BoF
Hi Aigars e.a.,
On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 11:04:38AM +0200, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
> IMHO we are missing one big topic in the current DebConf schedule - the
> explosion of large language models and other generative AI models. This is
> raising questions of what is or could be Debian role in these developments?
>
> So the question from my side is - is anyone who will be there at DebConf
> and is feeling competent enough to chat about this topic, maybe also give a
> quick summary of what the landscape of this functionality and its
> challenges is currently, to start the discussion?
>
> I expect that tooling for development of such AI tools is in Debian or is
> easy to get into Debian and that training of models is too cost-intensive
> for Debian to do (currently) but what about distribution of pre-trained
> models - what are technical and legal challenges there? What about hosting
> execution engines of pre-trained models - is that within Debian compute
> capability? What about distribution of tools with AI integration - local,
> Debina-hosted or externally hosted? What are technical and legal challenges
> there?
>
> If we don't have a better candidate, I can volunteer to host/moderate the
> BoF, but we for sure need some more competent people who can actually talk
> there. Any ideas?
Such a BoF could be very useful indeed, thanks for bringing this up.
People could read https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy to
get some feel of some of the current challenges.
My € 0,02,
Bye,
Joost
PS: No, I do not volunteer to give an introduction.
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