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Open-Sourcing Works - Elon Musk

Name: Open-Sourcing Works - Elon Musk
Uploaded: 2024-07-08T23:00:19+00:00
Duration: 34 s
Channel: David Jenyns
Description: A short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video (uploaded by David Jenyns) in which Elon Musk explains why he is open-sourcing a recommendation algorithm…

8 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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A short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video (uploaded by David Jenyns) in which Elon Musk explains why he is open-sourcing a recommendation algorithm to enable trust through transparency. Musk says open-sourcing exposed many faults (he reports fixing over 100 issues), that the entire algorithm will be released so others can recreate the probability of a tweet being recommended, and frames full transparency as the only path to trust.

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July 8, 2024

Over 100 issues

The probability of a tweet being recommended

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If you want to trust something, you've got to know how it works. That's why we're open sourcing the algorithm now. Open sourcing the algorithm is kind of embarrassing. People have found all sorts of things that were wrong and foolish, misguided with the algorithm, and we've actually fixed, I think, at this point, over 100 issues with the algorithm. So it's actually been very helpful to open source it, and we're going to open source the entire thing. Basically, you should be able to recreate the probability of a tweet being recommended based on what we've open sourced. If you can't recreate it, then we haven't shown you everything. So it's really complete transparency, and I think that's the only path to trust.