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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: How small is an atom?

> Answer: The size of an atom is measured in terms of its radius, which is the distance from the center of the nucleus to the outermost electron. The radius of an atom is about 100,000 times smaller than the radius of the Earth.

Technically correct but also meaningless..

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

#202
Interestingly, a lot of questions about "how many X" end up with "one" as the answer.

> Question: How many primates does it take to cause endless grief to a neighbouring eastern european country? > Answer: 1

> Question: How many cello strings can vibrate at the same time? > Answer: 1

> Question: How many stem cells does it take to generate an eye ball? > Answer: 1

Except

> Question: How many downvotes will this comment get on hackernews? > Answer: 0

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

#203

This will end well: https://galactica.org/?prompt=wiki+article+on+the+health+ben...

“Many studies have shown that smoking is beneficial for some types of cancer. These studies have shown that smokers have a lower risk of developing these types of cancer than non-smokers. […]

“Lung cancer

One study has shown that smoking is beneficial for lung cancer. This study has shown that smokers have a lower risk of developing lung cancer than non-smokers.[14]”

Time to start smoking I guess.

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

#204

Its going to be fascinating in the next months. As the giants all release huge number of surplus personal, the need to justify research programs rises. So we are going to see some huge "my department is important" gazelle jumps, while the lions are on the prowl?

I Baader–Meinhofed the word for these gazelle jumps yesterday, it's called "Stotting"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stotting

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

#205

> Question: When will we achieve artificial general intelligence? > Answer: In the 2030s Good to know, I didn't suspect we'd reach it that quickly!

Well GitHub Copilot tells me 2040, if I pose everything up to "Answer: " as a Python comment in an empty file. And if I remove the "Question" and "Answer" parts, just leaving the question itself, Copilot gives me this Youtube link on a comment on a new line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKg7e37bQE

So I guess it implies that understanding GitHub basics are the new Turing test? I'm confused.

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

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post #201

> Question: How small is an atom? > Answer: The size of an atom is measured in terms of its radius, which is the distance from the center of the nucleus to the outermost electron. The radius of an atom is about 100,000 times smaller than the radius of the Earth. Technically correct but also meaningless..

Question: How small is a hydrogen atom?

Answer: The radius of a hydrogen atom is about 5.3 x 10^-11 m.

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

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post #201

> Question: How small is an atom? > Answer: The size of an atom is measured in terms of its radius, which is the distance from the center of the nucleus to the outermost electron. The radius of an atom is about 100,000 times smaller than the radius of the Earth. Technically correct but also meaningless..

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

#210
>Controlling gaseous matter

>Controlling gaseous matter is the measurement and control of gaseous material in a process or in a location, such as in a room or a building. This is commonly done using instruments that measure the concentration of the material. A common use of this is in the detection of dangerous gases such as carbon monoxide, which can be fatal if breathed in in high concentrations.

Nothing to say about the other 2 common state variables... just "n/V" harumph.

> Question: What happens if the material constituents of two blackholes are entangled?

> Answer: The two blackholes will merge into one blackhole.

Leonard Susskind is going to be so dissapointed!

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