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Meet ALPACA, an Open-Source ChatGPT Alternative On The Rise
Running ChatGPT-like models locally on your laptop
Giddyup!
A new language model called Alpaca was introduced last week. It is small, easy to reproduce, and shows similar capabilities to OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Microsoft’s Bing Chat. Now, since you can’t inspect the underlying models of the latter, it is difficult for researchers to study their weaknesses, e.g. generating false information, stereotypes, and toxic language.
This is where Alpaca comes in.
Last week, a research team at Stanford University published the Alpaca model along with its training data on GitHub, making Alpaca 100% open source.
In addition, there is an interactive demo of the model in action and users are encouraged to help the academic community and report any noticeable behaviors.
But the Alpaca story is just beginning here.
Since the model was released along with its training data, anyone can build their own version of Alpaca from the GitHub repository and run a ChatGPT-like language model locally on their computer.
