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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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post #201

> 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..

How is it "technically correct"? It's just plain wrong.

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

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post #361

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This definition is too restrictive. Wether you choose to suscribe to this definition or not is a matter of opinion.

Open source is not a just a term with margin for interpretation: to be open source, you must comply with the 10 rules defined by the open source initiative. Restricting commercial usage goes against rule 6. You can call it readable source or whatever, but it's not open source as defined by OSI. "6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a sp…

Right. The OSD is not a "de jure" (by law) definition, but it is clearly the "de facto" definition of Open Source.

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

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AI Poem generated by an algorithm which uses the translated meanings of the Sanskrit words Fire, Earth, Water, Air, Akasha. Inspired by research that Sanskrit is a language free from culture context and most suitable for binary code artificial intelligence. While interacting with algorithms, this work brings to surface distinct aspects of language, its never to be fully grasped topography of both visual tropes. ⠀

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

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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.

https://github.com/paperswithcode/galai

Thanks so much!

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

#385
Galactica apparently thinks that there is evidence that vaccines may be linked to autism (!?!) If I enter the query:

vaccines and autism

I get:

--Vaccines and autism

Vaccines and autism is the hypothesis that vaccines are a significant cause of autism. The hypothesis is based on the epidemiological evidence of a temporal association between the two events, as well as on the biological plausibility of the hypothesis. The biological plausibility of the hypothesis is supported by the finding of an increased risk of febrile seizures following vaccination and the finding of a high rate of inflammatory and autoimmune disorders in autism spectrum disorders.(Zerbo et al., 2015)(Sweeten et al., 2003)(Ashwood et al., 2006)

There are many scientific and anecdotal reports linking vaccines with autism. However, it is difficult to determine whether the temporal association between vaccines and autism is causal or coincidental.

which is some fairly dangerous misinformation written in such a way as to sound plausible.

What is the point of a tool that can generate plausible-sounding nonsense? Is there not already enough misinformation on the Internet?

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

#386

Galactica apparently thinks that there is evidence that vaccines may be linked to autism (!?!) If I enter the query: vaccines and autism I get: --Vaccines and autism Vaccines and autism is the hypothesis that vaccines are a significant cause of autism. The hypothesis is based on the epidemiological evidence of a temporal association between the two events, as well as on the biological plausibility of the hypothesis.…

Oh and it gets better! Galactica suggests helpfully that maybe the preservatives in the vaccines cause autism!

Vaccine ingredients

Vaccines contain various ingredients. The ingredients in vaccines include antigens, preservatives, adjuvants, stabilizers, and traces of antibiotics.(Gerber et al., 2009) The preservatives, adjuvants, stabilizers, and traces of antibiotics have been proposed to be the main causes of autism.(Gerber et al., 2009) The preservatives and stabilizers are used to prevent the growth of bacteria and fungi in vaccines. The preservatives and stabilizers that have been proposed to be linked to autism include mercury, aluminum, thimerosal, and formaldehyde.(Gerber et al., 2009) The adjuvants are used to boost the immune response to vaccines. The adjuvants that have been proposed to be linked to autism include aluminum and mercury.(Gerber et al., 2009)

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

#390

Wow, I may actually become interested in Math using this. I like that there is always a glossary of math symbols attached, with a short description included, so that I can search for further explanations for these.

Though it is sad that they are not always defined. For example that weird looking "a" and "at" in the first formula of the answer to "what is the schroedinger equation?"

There are also cases of duplicated or cutted of paragraphs, but it is not very disturbing.

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