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"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 it…
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 Detectio…
Excerpt from an answer about sailing > Why doesn't the sail push directly on the boat? > The reason is that the boat and the sail are not in direct contact. The boat is in contact with the water, but the sail is in contact with the air. > Because the air and water are different substances, they can't push on each other. The sail pushes on the air, but the boat pushes on the water. This means that the sail and the boa…
I’m not sure what the point of this is or of why they are making it public. What use is content about science if any part of it can be wrong? Creating fiction or marketing copy from these models is fine but surely this is an abomination.
> WARNING: Outputs may be unreliable! Language Models are prone to hallucinate text. I’m not sure what the point of this is or of why they are making it public. What use is content about science if any part of it can be wrong? Creating fiction or marketing copy from these models is fine but surely this is an abomination.
> 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 i…
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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…
The situation you describe is exactly the "Chinese room" argument. I don't want to get too far into the weeds here, but the DALLE / Stable Diffusion models are cool because they do what you ask, even if they do so imperfectly. This model from Facebook cannot accurately answer a single thing I've asked it.
AIs make many mistakes, humans make many mistakes. AIs fail to draw hands, humans too, with few exceptions. Ask a human to draw a bicycle from memory. https://road.cc/content/blog/90885-science-cycology-can-you-...
Some of us believe in conspiracies rather than science. But as a species we still think ourselves intelligent.
What is the easiest way to try this via an API? I like that after reading about Flan-F5, that I could run their large model (not the extra, extra large) on Colab, loading the model from Hugging Face. I have been using GPT-3 for about a year via OpenAI. In a way this was an obvious idea, but still major kudos for Meta for doing it. Hopefully there will be an affordable API for using it.
Amusingly, the answers to both of the prompts "proof of the existence of irrational numbers" and "proof of the nonexistence of irrational numbers" are completely wrong, but the latter is considerably worse: > The proof of the nonexistence of irrational numbers is a mathematical proof that the real numbers cannot be partitioned into two sets such that all elements of one set are irrational numbers and all elements of…