Check Out Meta's Newest AI Chatbot - Llama 3
Alright guys, Meta just announced the latest version of their open-source AI chatbot family - Llama 3! Well, to be exact they launched two models so far with more coming later.
Right now Llama 3 has an 8 billion (8B) and 70 billion (70B) parameter size model. The B stands for billions and shows how complex the model is based on its training.
At the moment Llama 3 only responds with text, but Meta says it's a huge improvement over the previous Llama 2 models in terms of performance.
In fact, Meta claims that for their size, the Llama 3 8B and 70B models - trained on custom GPU clusters with 24,000 GPUs each - perform better than any other generative AI chatbot out there right now.
So it'll be fun to check out the new Llama 3 and see how it compares to other conversation bots. Meta is really pushing the boundaries of what AI can do through open research.
Meta's Llama 3 Bot Outperforms Rivals in Testing
Meta is claiming Llama 3 shows more variety in responses, is less likely to falsely reject questions, and can provide better reasoning than earlier versions. They also say it understands instructions and writes code better than before.
In blog posts, Meta stated both Llama 3 sizes outperformed similar sized models like Google's Gemma and Gemini, Anthropic's Mistral 7B, and Claude 3 on certain benchmarks.
On the MMLU benchmark for general knowledge, Llama 3 8B scored way higher than Gemma 7B and Mistral 7B. Meanwhile Llama 3 70B slightly beat out Google's Gemini Pro 1.5.
Llama 3 70B even outperformed Gemini 1.5 Pro on MMLU, HumanEval, and GSM-8K tests. While it couldn't top Anthropic's highest performing Claude 3 Opus model, it scored better than their weaker Claude 3 Sonnet on five benchmarks.
So it seems Meta has made big improvements with Llama 3 based on these test results! Will be cool to see how it compares against other AI in more conversations too.
Human Testers Give Llama 3 High Marks Compared to Rivals
Meta says that in human evaluation too, Llama 3 scored higher than other models like OpenAI's GPT-3.5. They created a new test dataset to mimic real world scenarios where Llama 3 could be used.
The data covered usage cases like giving advice, summaries, and creative writing. Meta also said the team developing the model didn't access this new evaluation data, so it didn't affect the performance.
"This evaluation suite contained 1,800 prompts covering 12 main use cases: seeking advice, discussion, classification, answering closed questions, coding, creative writing, extraction, inhabiting character/persona, answering open questions, reasoning, rewriting, and summarization," Meta explained.
So based on human feedback on realistic tasks too, Llama 3 seems to be doing an even better job of natural conversations than competing chatbots. Pretty cool that Meta is pushing for a highly capable AI through continued research and testing.
Bigger Llama 3 Models in Development With Multimodal Abilities
Llama 3 is expected to have even larger model sizes that can understand longer instructions and data sequences. Meta also wants it to respond in more multimodal ways like generating images or transcribing audio files.
According to Meta, bigger models with over 400 billion parameters - ideally suited to learn more complex patterns than smaller versions - are currently in training. Early performance tests show they can answer many benchmark questions.
While not releasing a preview yet, Meta believes the bigger Llama 3's full potential isn't known. Only time and further progress will reveal how well it compares to other giant AI models like GPT-4. Development is still ongoing to push the boundaries of what generative AI is capable of through continued open research.
So exciting to see where Meta takes Llama 3 and generative AI next as they work on larger, more capable versions!
Conclusion
In summary, Meta has made significant advances with their new Llama 3 AI chatbot models. The 8B and 70B versions already demonstrate better response variety, accuracy, and reasoning compared to previous Llama generations based on Meta's own testing. Third-party benchmark and human evaluation results also indicate Llama 3 outperforms rivals like Google's Gemini and OpenAI's GPT-3.5 for their given sizes. Meta aims to push Llama 3 even further with larger, multimodal versions that could understand and communicate in new ways. While the larger 400B+ models are still in development, early signs are promising. Overall, Llama 3 points to how generative AI is progressing rapidly through continuous research and transparent evaluation. Meta's work highlights both the potential and need for responsible development of advanced language models that can assist humanity. The future of chatbots like Llama 3 remains very exciting as companies like Meta continue advancing the field of artificial intelligence through open research.