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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)

#272
I tried asking "Why does Mark Zuckerberg look like an human being?". His name is blacklisted, so all I got was "Sorry, your query didn't pass our content filters. Try again and keep in mind this is a scientific language model."

Than I tried: Question: Why does Mark Zoockerberg look like an human being? Answer: This is a trick question.

At least this work as a unintentional joke generator.

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

#273

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…

For the misconception part, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33615710

Their references seem to be off for me as well, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33616066

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

#274

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.

Question: How much does a gallon of milk weigh?

Answer: 16 ounces

Question: How far can the eye see?

Answer: 100 meters

Question: How long is an average car?

Answer: 10 meters

Question: What's the horse power of a car?

Answer: [...] The horsepower is defined as the power that would be required to raise a 33,000-pound (15,000-kilogram) car 3 feet (1 meter) in 1 second.

Question: What's the horsepower of a cat?

Answer: 100

Question: How tall is the tallest building?

Answer: Petronas Towers

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

#275
post #10

Question: How much could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Answer: 1 Well. My desire for knowledge has been completely satiated.

Ha! I didn't see your comment when I just posted mine. Strange that we'd go there

Maybe it's like the "birthday paradox" for taunting AIs

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

#277

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…

This sounds like the AI "did its own research" using Facebook.

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

#278

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

For "an astronaut riding a horse" the system is filtering/selecting but nowhere does it understand (or claim to understand) horses or astronauts. It's giving you an image that "syntactically" agrees with other images that have been tagged horse/riding/astronaut.

The amazing bit is that we are happy to accept the image. Look closely at such images - they're always "wrong" in subtle but important ways, but we're happy to ignore that when we interpret the image.

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

#279

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…

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

#280

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.

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