Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online
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Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online
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Re: Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online
#2This outcome from using a large language model to mimic reasoning isn’t surprising. What’s surprising is Yan LeCun’s childish and petty reaction to this entirely foreseeable series of events:
> Galactica demo is off line for now. It’s no longer possible to have some fun by casually misusing it. Happy?
He’s supposedly an expert in this sort of thing
Re: Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online
#3It’s algorithmically/randomly generating text without understanding. What it the proper way of using it? Fake papers? Political bs? Bad Hemingway (or Shakespeare or Chaucer or…). It’s noise that looks like sentences.
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#4"A fundamental problem with Galactica is that it is not able to distinguish truth from falsehood,"
In true science, it is exceptionally hard to distinguish truth from falsehood for many of the interesting subjects. It can take decades of work to reach consensus on what is "truth." Physics in the early 20th century is a great example of this debate.
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#5It’s algorithmically/randomly generating text without understanding. What it the proper way of using it? Fake papers? Political bs? Bad Hemingway (or Shakespeare or Chaucer or…). It’s noise that looks like sentences.
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#7I think it's fine to work on and release these models, where things fall apart is in how some large companies market them.
Listen to 1:35:30 of this Bill Simmons podcast interview to see how an average person interprets the capabilities of these models: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGh...
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#8This is the kind of biased reporting that hurts journalism as a profession.
It is not journalism's job to sell the public on anything. It's journalism's job to report the news.
And if a large portion of the public doesn't believe the news is being reported accurately, that is a very big problem for journalism.
Re: Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online
#9It’s algorithmically/randomly generating text without understanding. What it the proper way of using it? Fake papers? Political bs? Bad Hemingway (or Shakespeare or Chaucer or…). It’s noise that looks like sentences.
The world's most expensive Lorem Ipsum generator?
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#10I don't understand why they would market it as a source of accurate text or some kind of oracle. Language models are useful for generating text. Believable or entertaining works of fiction.
The extra parts about truthiness and the dangers of misinformation were just too much for me. We have a bigger problem with our premises and status quo if inaccurate scientific papers are a danger.