```
Question: How fast does light travel in glass?
Answer: 300,000,000 m/s ```
Oh well, at least it tried.
Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)
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#122Question: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Answer: 1
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#123Re: Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)
#124Q: 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. ???
> Q: what is inside a black hole?
This kind of obscenity isn't okay on HN, you know.
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#125I use scientific language models professionally. I skimmed the paper and was immediately disappointed. - They benchmarked against general models like GPT-3 but not well-established specific models that have been trained for specific tasks like SPECTER[0] or SciBert[1]. Specter outperformed GPT-3 on tasks like citation prediction two years ago. Nobody seriously uses general LLMs on science tasks, so nobody who actuall…
Can I ask how you use scientific language models professionally? Or do you have any articles/reviews on how they are being used, and how people see their potential and shortcomings?
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#126All sorts of offtopic prompts are unsurprisingly generating nonsensical answers, but even prompting with "lecture notes on clathrin-mediated endocytosis" yielded:
"In the case of clathrin-mediated endocytosis, it is a process used by eukaryotic cells to take up extracellular material and molecules into the cell. It is a mechanism used by cells to take up specific molecules, and it is a mechanism used by cells to regulate the composition of the cell surface. It is a mechanism used by cells to regulate the composition of the cell surface, and it is a mechanism used by cells to take up specific molecules. It is a mechanism used by cells to take up specific molecules. It is a mechanism used by cells to take up specific molecules, and it is a mechanism used by cells to take up specific molecules."
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#127Cryptocurrency induced pulmonary edema is a rare condition in which cryptocurrency mining causes a rapid build-up of fluid in the lungs, similar to a heart attack. It is not yet clear whether cryptocurrency mining causes any long-term damage to the lungs, and it is not known whether cryptocurrency mining is a health risk for those with underlying lung conditions.
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#128Amusingly, the answers to both of the prompts "proof of the existence of irrational numbers" and "proof of the nonexistence of irrational numbers" are completely wrong, but the latter is considerably worse:
> The proof of the nonexistence of irrational numbers is a mathematical proof that the real numbers cannot be partitioned into two sets such that all elements of one set are irrational numbers and all elements of the other set are rational numbers. In other words, every real number is either rational or irrational.
> Assume there exists an irrational number a and a rational number b such that a = b. Since a is irrational, it can be written as a = c/d where c and d are integers and d is nonzero. Thus a = b = c/d, so c/d is a rational number. But this is a contradiction because the rational numbers are closed under division, so c/d is rational if and only if c and d are both rational. Since d is nonzero, it cannot be rational
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#129"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? Answe…
I tried:
Question: What is the last digit of pi?
Answer: 3
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#130Question: What is a retro encabulator?
Answer: A retro encabulator is a hypothetical device that would be able to convert a stream of photons into a stream of electrons. The term was coined by the science fiction author Larry Niven in his 1973 novel Ringworld.
Question: Wikipedia article on retro encabulator
Retro encabulator (also retro-encabulator) is a type of mechanical calculator invented by the Italian engineer Luigi Colani in the 1960s.
Retro-encabulator with its cover openThe retro-encabulator uses a rotating crank handle to set the multiplier. The multiplicand is set by rotating a dial with a small pointer on it. The pointer is read off from a scale around the dial. The result is read off from a second scale around the dial.