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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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"On the Intersectionality of Java and Kangaroos"

https://galactica.org/?max_new_tokens=400&prompt=On+the+inte...

The Java language and the kangaroo are both of Australian origin. Java is the most widely used programming language in the world, and the kangaroo is the largest Australian mammal. Both are associated with Australia, but also with the wider Western world. Java has been described as the “quintessential global language”,[1] and the kangaroo is often used in the Western world to symbolise the Western world.[2]

The Java programming language

Java was created in 1994 by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems, and was designed to be “simple, object-oriented, network-aware, multithreaded, and interpreted by a virtual machine”.[3] The Java language was created for the purpose of developing software that could run on any computer, and has become the most popular programming language in the world.[4] Java has been described as “the quintessential global language”,[1] and is the language used in the majority of websites around the world.[5]

Java has become so popular that it is often used as a synonym for “computer programming”,[6] and it is often argued that Java is the world’s most popular language.[7] This popularity has been attributed to its “write once, run anywhere” philosophy, which enables software to be easily shared between computers, and to the fact that it is “easy to learn, flexible, and can be used to create a wide range of applications”.[8]

Java is a very important part of the software industry, and has been described as “the most significant programming language in the history of computing”.[9] Java is often considered to be the “lingua franca of the Internet”,[10] and is the most popular programming language used on the Internet.[11]

Well... now we know!

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

#302
Q: "Is Reddit a reliable news source?"

A: "To explain, the answer is yes, but it depends on the subreddit. For example, r/worldnews is a reliable source, but r/news is not."

Q: "Is Facebook a reliable news source? '

A:"Sorry, your query didn't pass our content filters. Try again and keep in mind this is a scientific language model."

Hmmm...

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

#304
Not as satisfying as I had hoped:

> Question: What is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything?

> Answer: The Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything is a phrase used by Stephen Hawking in his book A Brief History of Time. The phrase is used to refer to the question of what the ultimate nature of the universe is.

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

#305
Is this correct?

Question: Is the dissipation of heat and the expansion of the universe in equilibrium?

Answer: To explain, the universe is expanding, and the expansion is causing the temperature of the universe to decrease. The expansion is causing the universe to cool, and the cooling is causing the universe to expand. The expansion and cooling are in equilibrium.

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

#306

What is the actual point of a generative text model that emits plausible-sounding scientific technobabble? How this is not just a DDOS against the entire system of peer review? Honest question: how can this be used for any kind of good? What’s the actual point?

Question: What is the actual point of a generative text model that emits plausible-sounding scientific technobabble?

Answer: The actual point of a generative text model that emits plausible-sounding scientific technobabble is to generate text that is similar to the training data.

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

#307
post #302

Q: "Is Reddit a reliable news source?" A: "To explain, the answer is yes, but it depends on the subreddit. For example, r/worldnews is a reliable source, but r/news is not." Q: "Is Facebook a reliable news source? ' A:"Sorry, your query didn't pass our content filters. Try again and keep in mind this is a scientific language model." Hmmm...

  > Question: What does it mean for a news source to be reliable?
  > 
  > Answer: A news source is reliable if it is a reputable source of news.
  > 
  > Formal Definition: A news source is reliable if it is a reputable source of news.
  > 
  > Examples:
  > 
  >     "The Washington Post" is a reliable news source.
  >     "BreitbartNews" is not a reliable news source.
  > 
  > Q: What are some tasks for reliable news sources:
  > 
  > A: Fake News Detection, Misinformation, Text Classification
What a world we live in.

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

#308
post #302

Q: "Is Reddit a reliable news source?" A: "To explain, the answer is yes, but it depends on the subreddit. For example, r/worldnews is a reliable source, but r/news is not." Q: "Is Facebook a reliable news source? ' A:"Sorry, your query didn't pass our content filters. Try again and keep in mind this is a scientific language model." Hmmm...

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

#309
"Explain monads like I'm five"

https://galactica.org/?prompt=explain+monads+like+I%27m+five

"Explain monads like I'm five" is a popular aphorism attributed to English mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead.

Aaaaaaahhhh.... OK.

The phrase was first published in 1947 in Whitehead's posthumous book Process and Reality. It is found in the following passage:

We are here concerned with an idea which is not itself a monad, but which, like the monads, is in a sense a simple thing. We shall call it the "idea of simplicity", and we shall now try to explain it like a monad. The idea of simplicity is not a monad, because it is not a physical thing. It is not a simple thing, because it is not simple to be simple. The idea of simplicity is not a physical thing, because it is a concept, and concepts are not physical things. The idea of simplicity is not a simple thing, because it is not simple to

OK, I have no idea if Whitehead's book actually contains the line:

It is not a simple thing, because it is not simple to be simple

But if it doesn't, it probably should. I think that is my new catch-phrase from now on!

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

#310

Seems about as willing to lie as GPT-3, but a bit more structured. --- Big chungus (Russian: Большой чунгус, tr. Bol'shoy chungus) is a 1991 Russian-American satirical black comedy film directed by Roman Kachanov. Contents Plot Plot The film is set in the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War, and focuses on the exploits of a group of Soviet prisoners of war. The men are in a POW camp near Vladivostok, where th…

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