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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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Question: Are there infinitely many prime numbers? Answer: To explain, we need to define what a prime number is. A prime number is a number that is divisible only by 1 and itself. For example, 11 is a prime number because it is only divisible by 1 and 11. 11 is not divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10. The question of whether there are infinitely many prime numbers is an open question. It is not known whether t…

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

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Question: Magnets, how do they work? Answer: Magnets are a type of material that can attract or repel other materials. The force of attraction or repulsion is called a magnetic force. The force is caused by the movement of electrons in the material. The movement of electrons is called electricity. The force is called magnetism. The force is called a magnetic field.

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

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Question: How many piano tuners are there in Seattle? Answer: 10 I won't be asking Galactica to stand in for my next job interview.

Number seems to be 81 in fact. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69175/answers-10-tricky-...

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

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The AI landscape continues to amaze. Seems like it may do better with prompts for wiki articles or blog posts than questions.

Yes, that was my experience too--that it does better at generating articles than answering questions. Prompting it for e.g. "Lit review on stellerators" resulted in a coherent text with actual working doi links relevant to the subject.

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

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Question: Why is the galactica language model so dangerous? Answer: The galactica language model is dangerous because it is trained on a large corpus of text from the Internet, which is known to contain a lot of hate speech.

Sounds dangerous indeed.
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