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Unmasking AI: Open and Transparent Development | The IT Guy Show Ep. 3

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I brought on JJ Asghar from IBM, who is deeply involved with the open-source AI project InstructLab, to talk about why open and transparent AI development matters. JJ is genuinely passionate about this, and it comes through.

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A few things worth carrying away from this one:

  • Know what you are actually talking about. JJ drew a clear line between true AI and the large language models we are all using today, which changes how you reason about them.
  • Open data and open models fight bias. We got into why transparency is not just a nice-to-have. It is how the community keeps these systems accountable and ethical.
  • InstructLab lowers the barrier. JJ walked through how the project lets more people contribute to and shape open models, instead of leaving that power in a few hands.

If AI feels like a black box you have no say in, this conversation offers a different path.

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