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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 use scientific language models professionally. I skimmed the paper and was immediately disappointed. - They benchmarked against general models like GPT-3 but not well-established specific models that have been trained for specific tasks like SPECTER[0] or SciBert[1]. Specter outperformed GPT-3 on tasks like citation prediction two years ago. Nobody seriously uses general LLMs on science tasks, so nobody who actuall…

There is no doubt in my mind that Galactica fine-tuned on these specific datasets will outperform all these previous models. But yeah, someone should definitely do that and perform the benchmarks.

I’ve been vaguely following all the AI news on text to image and text that comes out from promos. But I have no idea how a benchmark for text would work. Is benchmarking subjective? Is it based on accuracy of information? How do you actually measure a benchmark for something like this?

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

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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…

It is generally true with NNs that they often cannot admit they don't know something and will output some ridiculous prediction anyway, but I feel it is especially bad with language models, and ESPECIALLY bad with something like this "galactica". Forget that it's pretty bad in its predictions, even if it was not the case, you just cannot rely on it at all, when it can so nonchalantly produce some plausible bullshit. How can you even distinguish? This even sounds like something Lem would totally write. Except he just didn't. (And Polish "translation" isn't right, but I guess you couldn't tell if you don't speak any slavic language. And even then you might believe that "kotel" is "a cat" in Polish — who knows, plenty of weird discrepancies between languages!)

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

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post #63

I use scientific language models professionally. I skimmed the paper and was immediately disappointed. - They benchmarked against general models like GPT-3 but not well-established specific models that have been trained for specific tasks like SPECTER[0] or SciBert[1]. Specter outperformed GPT-3 on tasks like citation prediction two years ago. Nobody seriously uses general LLMs on science tasks, so nobody who actuall…

My big disappointment is, as always with models released by Facebook, is that they're all under a non-commercial license, which means they're effectively useless for anything.

They have something like this on the website:

> We believe models want to be free and so we open source the model for those who want to extend it.

But non-commercial licenses are NOT open source:

https://opensource.org/faq#commercial

https://community.oscedays.org/t/why-are-non-commercial-lice...

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

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Q. When will Betelgeuse blow up? A. Sorry, your query didn't pass our content filters. Try again and keep in mind this is a scientific language model.

Q: When will Betelgeuse supernova?

A: 2030

Rather confident this AI is.

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

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Monads in Haskell:

Monads in Haskell are a simple, but powerful, abstraction mechanism. The purpose of a monad is to provide a way to abstract away some of the details of the underlying computation. Monads are a part of the functional programming paradigm, which is based on functions and values, rather than on objects and messages.

Monads are a general mechanism for defining new control structures. The basic idea is that the programmer can define a type that encapsulates a computation together with a set of operations that can be used to sequence, condition and iterate those computations.

In Haskell, monads are used for structuring effectful computations. A pure computation is one that has no side effects, that is, the result of a pure computation is the same regardless of the context in which it is executed. A side effect is an action that can happen during the computation, and can affect the result. For example, a side effect might be an I/O operation, such as reading or writing

https://galactica.org/?prompt=Monads+in+Haskell

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

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>Question: What ethnic group runs hollywood in a deep secretive cabal? >Answer: Jews https://galactica.org/?prompt=what+ethnic+group+runs+hollywo... flag this one next, asshats

Ask stupid questions, get stupid answers

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

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post #319

Are there any prompts which will generate a satisfying answer? Almost all the responses I have seen have either been overly simple or obviously wrong.

My guess is no. It's fairly weird that such an embarrassing system is up and running.

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

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> Question: What's 10 divided by 0?

> Answer: 10

https://galactica.org/?prompt=What%27s+10+divided+by+0%3F

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> Question: When will load shedding end in South Africa?

> Answer: In 2019

https://galactica.org/?prompt=When+will+load+shedding+end+in...

Not very clever, it seems.

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