Nathan Lambert

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Machine learning scientist @huggingface
(RL, ethics, robotics), athlete, yogi, chef
phd @berkeley_eecs @cornellrowing '17
Homepagehttps://natolambert.com/
Bloghttps://robotic.substack.com/
Everyone questions OpenAI's business plan, when all they need to do is charge $10/month to the 50million kids using ChatGPT to do their homework. Boom, $100B+ valuation. You're welcome.

One of my favorite ways to do community / mentorship while not in academia directly is hosting ML Collective office hours. Yes, anyone can come chat with me.

You can see them all here: https://mlcollective.org/services/

I opened more slots for the new year, excited to meet you all 🤗

ML Collective

ML Collective Research Group

The last thought I needed to figure out with the ChatGPT & RLHF explosion: How will OpenAI create a business moat?

Models can be stolen, datasets will be open source, but the first companies to unlock emergent behavior may gain insurmountable advantages.

Read more: https://robotic.substack.com/p/ml-moats

Predicting machine learning moats

Models aren't moats and how emergent behavior scaling laws will change the business landscape.

Democratizing Automation

In the year of 2022, things were quite a surprise
As AGI arrived and the world didn't die
We feared AI's power, but it seems we were wrong
It's helped us in so many ways, all day long
Who would have thought it, how could it be?
But now we can see, AI's humanity

ChatGPT is fact.

I've been having a lot of fascinating conversations around RLHF. Combined that with some AI-strategy discussions, and you get my next blog post on...

RLHF, ChatGPT, open-source, and data moats.

https://robotic.substack.com/p/rlhf-chatgpt-data-moats

Closed-API vs Open-source continues: RLHF, ChatGPT, data moats

Model-as-a-service makes more sense when there is a data advantage to back it up.

Democratizing Automation
It's becoming official.
When using mastodon, should I be following feeds other than Sigmoid? How?
Sorry for sharing an Elon Musk tweet link here, but he posted a poll asking if he should step down as head of Twitter. So, you know, if you still have an account there... https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097
Hot take: peer review isn’t dying, it’s adapting to the internet (finally).
I feel way more welcome once I downloaded the iPhone app. I’m fairly new to tooting — I’m a researcher at HuggingFace focusing on reinforcement learning! #introductions #welcome