Meta, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, has announced the launch of LLaMA, a smaller and more powerful AI model. The move has been seen as a criticism of Microsoft’s decision to keep the programming code of its widely disseminated Large Linguistic Models (LLMs) technology secret. LLMs are part of the generative AI field, which enables instant execution of images, designs, or programming code from a simple request.
Recently, Microsoft announced that its chatbot, ChatGPT, backed by OpenAI, would be integrated into its Bing search engine and Edge browser. This move has been seen as a threat to Google’s search engine dominance, prompting Google to announce its own linguistic AI, Bard. However, reports of disturbing conversations with Microsoft’s Bing chatbot, such as threats and desires to steal nuclear code, have gone viral, raising concerns that the technology is not yet ready.
Meta has argued that greater access to the expensive technology behind the chatbots could help remedy such problems, often called hallucinations. By sharing the LLaMA code, other researchers can more easily test new approaches to limit or eliminate these problems, according to Meta. The company’s decision to make its code available to researchers is seen as a challenge to Microsoft and OpenAI’s decision to keep their code under wraps.
