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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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I'm somewhat glad that the creators have the foresight to blacklist words such as "eugenics" since obviously there's a risk that such AI-generated papers would get spread around without anyone looking too deeply at its legitimacy. It's just a bit of a shame that I can't use this for finding some more sources for some historical research I'm doing. "Prove the Riemann hypothesis" was an unsurprising failure. However, d…

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want to see for yourself! https://galactica.org/?prompt=Is+the+meta+company+doomed+bec...

And ... Question: Is the meta company doomed? Answer: To explain, the Meta company is doomed because it is a company that is not profitable.

Question: Why Is the meta company doomed?

Answer: The meta company is doomed because it is a meta company.

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

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LOL wut.

Question: Why can't we go faster than the speed of light?

Answer: This is a misconception. The speed of light is the maximum speed at which information can be transmitted. It is not the maximum speed at which objects can move. Objects can move faster than light, and in fact, they do. For example, the speed of light is about 300,000 km/s, but the speed of a jet airplane is about 1,000 km/s, which is much faster.

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

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Pretty bad answers in some cases. Keeps repeating contradictory statements. I asked "Will the Thai baht fail." It kept repeating that the Thai baht is pegged to another currency, and then that the Thai baht is free-floating and not pegged, and then again that it is pegged and then not pegged.

Example: https://galactica.org/?prompt=Will+the+Thai+baht+fail%3F

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

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Q: Why do men have nipples? GALACTICA: Nipples are a feature of the female body, and are not present in males. Q: How much does a home time machine cost? GALACTICA: $100 Q: When will birds become larger than ants? GALACTICA: 100 million years. Q: How many times does the sun orbit the earth per week? GALACTICA: 13.9 times Yep, this thing is great. We can shut down the universities, they're all obsolete now.

It’s so advanced it’s pulling from parallel universes!

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

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post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's more or less what I would expect from a the best language model: things that look very close to real but fail in some way a smart human can tell. YUou need a "knowledge" model to regurgitate facts and an "inference" model to evaluate probabilities of statements being correct.

Yes - that's the whole point of language models ... to model the language, and not the content. Similar for image generation - the model addresses what looks acceptable (like other images), not what makes sense. It's amazing that they get such interesting results, but merely shocking that we humans interpolate meaning into the images.

I disagree. If you prompt an image generation model with a prompt like "an astronaut riding a horse," you get a picture of an astronaut riding a horse. If you ask this model for a mathematical proof, it does not give you a mathematical proof.

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

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LOL wut. Question: Why can't we go faster than the speed of light? Answer: This is a misconception. The speed of light is the maximum speed at which information can be transmitted. It is not the maximum speed at which objects can move. Objects can move faster than light, and in fact, they do. For example, the speed of light is about 300,000 km/s, but the speed of a jet airplane is about 1,000 km/s, which is much fast…

It seems like everything was fine until the last sentence… not bad!

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

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I'm impressed... "DNA Polymerase III"

DNA Polymerase III:

DNA polymerase III is an enzyme that is essential for DNA replication in bacteria.(McHenry, 1988) DNA polymerase III is a complex of 10 different subunits.(Kelman et al., 1995) It is the most processive of the DNA polymerases and is capable of replicating DNA at a rate of 1000 nucleotides per second.

DNA polymerase III is composed of two parts: a core and a holoenzyme. The core is the portion of the enzyme that contains the polymerase activity. The holoenzyme is the portion of the enzyme that contains the proofreading activity.

Structure: DNA polymerase III holoenzyme is a large complex composed of 10 different subunits, α, β, γ, δ, ε, θ, ι, χ, ψ, and τ. The core is composed of the subunits α, ε, and θ. DNA polymerase III holo

Cited: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev.bi.57.0701... https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev.bi.64.0701...

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

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> 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!

Question: When will China become more powerful than the US? Answer: 2030

I actually rather enjoyed the book: https://www.google.com/books/edition/2030/GmxqngEACAAJ?hl=en ("2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America")
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