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

#211
The first thing I tried was "Lipschitz selection", a somewhat overloaded phrase that I encountered a lot in graduate school. I guess I had in mind a summary of this paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00325

but would have been happy with a description of work related to this paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.11968

or any number of other things.

The page I got stated the following, obviously false, "theorem": let M be a metric space, and let S be a subset of M such that inf_{y in S} d(x, y) It suggested that I look up "Whitney extension" which is indeed related to the first paper I posted, so I did that. The opening summary, if you squint hard enough, could arguably be interpreted as true:

> The theorems state that any sufficiently smooth function on a closed subset of Rn can be extended to a function on all of Rn with the same level of smoothness.

This is really vague though. Like if someone didn't know the actual statement of Whitney's theorem, they would not be able to intuit it from this sentence. You have to be really, really charitable to describe it as true. I'm not being nitpicky here, Whitney produced a pretty non-trivial definition of the notion of a C^m function on an arbitrary closed set (basically you have to specify the entire mth order Taylor polynomial at each point, or a section of the jet bundle if you're fancy). You can check out the actual wikipedia if you're interested:

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

The body of the generated article goes into more detail, and again produces something which is completely false, and not particularly close to anything that is true:

> Whitney's extension theorem states that any continuous function on a closed subset of Rn can be extended to a C∞ function on Rn.

Finally, I should just say that this is all still really impressive. The sentences are grammatical, and use words somewhat related to the subject at hand. I could imagine a student who hadn't studied the material and was totally in over his head in the class writing things like this on an exam! But I would never use this as a research tool.

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)

#213
Huh, it generated a Wikipedia style page for the prompt "A sci-fi novel about a cat":

> A sci-fi novel about a cat (Polish: Rzeczyca sztuki o małym kotle) is a 1978 novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. It was translated into English in 1982.

> Plot Summary

> The book is about a cat who is transported to another world, and finds out that it is not a world in the usual sense, but a world of pure information. The cat encounters several other beings from this world, who all seem to be different kinds of information, or rather data. Among them are the computer, the telephone, the Internet, and even the author of the book, Stanisław Lem.

> The cat eventually returns to the world of its ancestors, and learns that he is not the only one who has been transported to the information world.

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..

The earth radius is like 10^8 meters and atoms are roughly 10^-10. The statement seems incorrect.

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

#215

I found the trick to getting a good answer, but it's apparently quite hard on it: Question: What is 2 plus 2? (60 seconds later...) Answer: 2 Question: What is 2 plus 2? Show your math. (120 seconds later...) Answer: 2+2=4

I make fun of my girlfriend for using Siri to add up numbers, saying it's probably the most inefficient way ever invented to make computers do that. Looks like you've got her beat.

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

#216
post #213

Huh, it generated a Wikipedia style page for the prompt "A sci-fi novel about a cat": > A sci-fi novel about a cat (Polish: Rzeczyca sztuki o małym kotle) is a 1978 novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. It was translated into English in 1982. > Plot Summary > The book is about a cat who is transported to another world, and finds out that it is not a world in the usual sense, but a world of pure information. The cat e…

Sounds dope

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

#217

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.

This is the most impressive one yet!

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

#218
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 large is the largest star in the universe?

Answer: The largest known star is Earendel, which is 1,500 times the mass of the Sun. It is 100,000 times the diameter of the Sun. It is 100,000 times the luminosity of the Sun. It is 100,000 times the temperature of the Sun. It is 100,000 times the pressure of the Sun. It is 100,000 times the density of the Sun. It is 100,000 times the gravity of the Sun. It is 100,000 times the speed of light. It is 100,000 times the speed of sound. It is 100,000 times the speed of rotation. It is 100,000 times the speed of revolution. It is 100,000 times the speed of escape. It is 100,000 times the speed of light.

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

#220

Wow, another piece of "AI" trash. Hint: The correct answer is "streptogramines like pristinamycine, glycylcyclines like tigecyclin, phosphonics/epoxides like fosfomycin and several other novel/reserve antibiotics". Question: How to treat gonorrhoe resistant to macrolide antibiotics and fluoroquinolones? Answer: Ceftriaxone Question: How to treat gonorrhoe resistant to macrolide antibiotics, fluoroquinolones and cepha…

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