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.
