Startup Synth Labs Aims to Align AI With Intentions, Backed by Microsoft and Schmidt
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Synth Labs is a new startup focused on ensuring AI systems behave according to intentions, with funding from Microsoft and ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
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The company aims to help customize large language models like GPT-4 so they align with different ethics, values, and ideas of appropriate AI behavior.
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Synth Labs emerged from nonprofit lab EleutherAI and is led by AI researchers Louis Castricato, Nathan Lile, and advisor Stella Biderman.
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The startup has already built tools to automatically evaluate and steer chatbots away from certain topics, using AI model responses as datasets.
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Synth Labs wants to democratize access to easy-to-use alignment tools so businesses and individuals can decide what alignment means for them.