Percy Liang on the Center for Research on Foundation Models

Realizing that Foundation Models are a big deal, scaling, why Percy founded CRFM, Stanford's position in the field, benchmarking, privacy, and CRFM's first and next 30 years.

Transcript: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/podcast/liang/

• Percy's website
• Percy on Twitter
• CRFM
• On the opportunities and risks of foundation models
• ELMo: Deep contextualized word representations
• BERT: Pre-training of deep bidirectional Transformers for language understanding
• Sam Bowman
• GPT-2
• Adversarial examples for evaluating reading comprehension systems
• System 1 and System 2
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data
• Chinchilla: Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models
• GitHub Copilot
• LaMDA: Language models for dialog applications
• AI Test Kitchen
• DALL-E 2
• Richer Socher on the CS224U podcast
• you.com
• Chris Ré
• Fei-Fei Li
• Chris Manning
• HAI
• Rob Reich
• Erik Brynjolfsson
• Dan Ho
• Russ Altman
• Jeff Hancock
• The time is now to develop community norms for the release of foundation models
• Twitter Spaces event
• Best practices for deploying language models
• Model Cards for model reporting
• Datasheets for datasets
• Strathern's law