Laboratory-Scale AI: Open-Weight Models are Competitive with ChatGPT Even in Low-Resource Settings

Jun 1, 2024ยท
Robert Wolfe
,
Isaac Slaughter
,
Bin Han
Bingbing Wen
Bingbing Wen
,
Yiwei Yang
,
Lucas Rosenblatt
,
Bernease Herman
,
Eva Maxfield Brown
,
Zening Qu
,
Nic Weber
,
Bill Howe
ยท 1 min read
Abstract
We show that carefully selected open-weight language models can achieve performance competitive with proprietary systems like ChatGPT even in low-resource institutional settings, enabling more equitable access to AI.
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Publication
FAccT 2024

We study how open-weight models can be deployed in low-resource settings, finding that with appropriate selection and configuration they can rival proprietary systems such as ChatGPT for many practical tasks.