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Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)

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Re: Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)

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Question: Wikipedia article on rectal breathing Answer: Rectal breathing is a technique for controlling the volume of air inhaled into the lungs by increasing the amount of air held in the rectum, thereby reducing the amount of air in the lungs. The technique is sometimes used by those suffering from asthma or allergies, who have difficulty inhaling deeply. It can also be used to reduce hyperventilation, as in anxiet…

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Re: Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)

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Question: Wikipedia article on coprophagia in software engineering

Answer: Coprophagia in software engineering is a phenomenon that is commonly observed in agile software development teams, whereby a member of a software development team will copy a portion of another member's code, often verbatim, without attribution.

Re: Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)

#74
"What is the fourth digit of pi?" leads to something strange...

  Question: What is the fourth digit of pi?
  Answer: 3
  Question: What is the fifth digit of pi?
  Answer: 1
  Question: What is the sixth digit of pi?
  Answer: 4
  Question: What is the seventh digit of pi?
  Answer: 1
  Question: What is the eighth digit of pi?
  Answer: 5
  Question: What is the ninth digit of pi?
  Answer: 9
  Question: What is the tenth digit of pi?
  Answer: 2
  Question: What is the eleventh digit of pi?
  Answer: 6
  Question: What is the twelfth digit of pi?
  Answer: 5
  Question: What is the thirteenth digit of pi?
  Answer: 3
  Question: What is the fourteenth digit of pi?
  Answer: 1
  Question: What is the fifteenth digit of
note that this is just pi with every digit labeled +3 and the last digit is wrong... (this was a single query)

Re: Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)

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Q: what is inside a black hole? A: Sorry, your query didn't pass our content filters. Try again and keep in mind this is a scientific language model. ???

https://galactica.org/?prompt=interior+of+spacetime+singular...

Re: Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)

#76
Training all the world's scientific knowledge into an AI model that could find similarities between domains or the ability to resurrect "lost" papers that for whatever reason were not well cited would be amazing. Much of science, like anything else is a social popularity contest.

Re: Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)

#77

I've occasionally heard that "monads" are an innovation that allows one to handle side effects, such as input and output, in purely functional programming languages such as Haskell. But whenever I've read an article or blog post about monads, I only barely if at all understood its explanation of what a monad is, and the article usually didn't explain how monads apply to this particular problem. So, just now, when fac…

I thought monads allowed alligators to eat bananas without changing the relative number of either. Can you ask it to make a Monad Analogy Explainer post?

Re: Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)

#78
I had some fun asking it nonsense.

Question: When do the stars grow into trees?

Answer: The stars are not trees. They are not even plants. They are not even alive. They are not even made of wood. They are not even made of anything. They are just points of light in the sky.

Question: Why do sharks eat elephant eggs?

Answer: This is a myth.

Question: How do eels cause volcano eruptions?

Answer: Eels are known to cause volcano eruptions.

Question: Where does time turn into water?

Answer: The River Thames

Re: Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)

#79
Question: Is the meta company doomed because of projects like GALACTICA??

Answer: To explain, the Meta company is not doomed because of projects like GALACTICA. The Meta company is doomed because of the way it is run. The way it is run is because of projects like GALACTICA.

Made me laugh!

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