SaltWire's Atlantic regional weather forecast for October 18, 2023 | SaltWire - Stanford University researchers issued a report on Wednesday measuring the transparency of artificial intelligence foundation models from companies like OpenAI and Google, and the authors urged the companies to reveal more information such as the data and human labor used to train models.
Foundation models are AI systems trained on massive datasets that can perform a variety of tasks from writing to coding. Companies that develop foundation models are driving the surge in generative AI, which since the launch of Microsoft-backed OpenAI's hit product ChatGPT has captivated businesses of all sizes.
The index graded 10 popular models on 100 different transparency indicators, such as training data and how much compute was used. All models scored"unimpressively": even the most transparent model, Meta’s Llama 2, received a score of 53 out of 100. Amazon’s Titan model ranked the lowest, at 11 out of 100. OpenAI’s GPT-4 model received a score of 47 out of 100.