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ChatGPT but Open Source: That's What

This Project is Aiming For
Will we �nally have a working open-source alternative to ChatGPT?
This looks promising!

March 17, 2023 . 4�08 PM � 2 min read

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Companies with deep pockets entirely control powerful chatbots like ChatGPT.

Whether you �nd the existence of AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT useful is a
di�erent story �

It takes a lot of e�ort to maintain the architecture that supports the working of such a
chatbot. Sure, the folks at OpenAI have done impressive work. But, we get no
transparency, no community voice, and it is not freely accessible for others to build
ChatGPT-like systems.

Just like we have Linux as an alternative to Windows and macOS, we need an open-
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Just like we have Linux as an alternative to Windows and macOS, we need an open-
source solution to ChatGPT.

Unfortunately, it is not as simple as it sounds �

To train AI models for chatbots, a project needs massive computing power and
datasets to train the model. And open-source projects do not necessarily have the
kind of funding to make that happen unless someone passionate decides to invest a
lot to �ght against the big tech companies.

Fortunately, a team of talented professionals seems to have made promising progress

in developing an open-source ChatGPT alternative.

Together, an organization aims to overcome the challenges of creating an open-

source ChatGPT-like system.

Thanks to TechCrunch for spotting such an exciting endeavor.

They recently unveiled their �rst major project, OpenChatKit, a framework to create
AI-powered chatbots. Along with the project, you can also �nd trained models that

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any developer can use to create an AI-powered chatbot.

OpenChatKit demo

You can �nd it on GitHub to explore the technical bits about it and a demo to test the
models.

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With the open-source repositories, anyone can replicate the same, tweak their own
experience, and integrate it with things.

Together also collaborated with other research organizations, including LAION

(responsible for developing Stable Di�usion) and Ontocord, to create a training
dataset containing more than 40 million questions and answers examples.

The dataset is called Open Instruction Generalist Dataset.

Of course, considering OpenChatKit is something new, it still needs a long way to go,
but it is not bad at responding to typical and interesting questions.

Furthermore, OpenChatKit also provides a good moderation feature (a dataset is

available), which developers can improve and use.

Overall, the open nature of development should come in useful in the near future.
Quoting what Together's founder (Vipul Ved Prakash) mentions via TechCrunch's
coverage:

Our thesis is that the more the open research community can audit, inspect and improve
generative AI technologies the better enabled we will be as a society to come up with

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solutions to these risks. We believe a world in which the power of large generative AI
models is solely held within a handful of large technology companies, unable able to
audited, inspected or understood, carries greater risk.

The impact of chatbots and use cases is still controversial and tough to moderate.

However, with an open development approach to such a system, we can bring in

more transparency, community purview, and customizability to �ne-tune it in a way
that is safe for everyone and valuable at the same time.

� What do you think about OpenChatKit by Together? Share your thoughts in the
comments below.

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I'm steering away from any corporate AI like ChatGPT, but would have a
go in an OSS environment.
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Joe 22 days ago

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I believe AI is going to be the End of Us or integrated into our brains with
neural chips and who knows what kind of impact that would do. I find AI
very interesting and I think it has a lot of potential, but I believe in the end
it will be a mistake.
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joe bloggs 16 days ago

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AI, like any tech. is neither good nor bad, it's how it's used that
makes it so, unfortunately in this world there's a lot of bad !
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