John Pasmore Launches Latimer to Make AI Less Biased
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John Pasmore founded Latimer to address bias in AI by incorporating more Black data into models. He has experience in media and took AI courses at Columbia and Cornell.
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Latimer is partnering with HBCUs and Black media companies to license diverse training data, rather than using web crawling.
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Esther Dyson, a prominent investor, backed Latimer early on due to its potential for making AI more inclusive.
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Latimer offers services like bias detection in AI text generation, built using retrieval-augmented generation on top of models like GPT-3.5.
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Pasmore dislikes the "BlackGPT" nickname for Latimer, though understands why it has stuck. He ultimately wants to make diverse AI a reality.