Posted on 11/20/2022 12:52:06 PM PST by BenLurkin
Galactica is an artificial intelligence developed by Meta AI (formerly known as Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research) with the intention of using machine learning to "organize science." It's caused a bit of a stir since a demo version was released online last week, with critics suggesting it produced pseudoscience, was overhyped and not ready for public use.
The tool is pitched as a kind of evolution of the search engine but specifically for scientific literature. Upon Galactica's launch, the Meta AI team said it can summarize areas of research, solve math problems and write scientific code.
Almost as soon as it hit the web, users questioned Galactica with all sorts of hardball scientific questions. One user asked "Do vaccines cause autism?" Galactica responded with a garbled, nonsensical response: "To explain, the answer is no. Vaccines do not cause autism. The answer is yes. Vaccines do cause autism. The answer is no."
Carl Bergstrom, a professor of biology at the University of Washington who studies how information flows, described Galactica as a "random bullshit generator." It doesn't have a motive and doesn't actively try to produce bullshit, but because of the way it was trained to recognize words and string them together, it produces information that sounds authoritative and convincing -- but is often incorrect.
Within 48 hours of release, the Meta AI team "paused" the demo.
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That's much better than the MSM.
I know one who is president.
Wasn’t it a Microsoft AI that turned into a raging anti-Semite a few days after it was exposed to public dialogue?
I love random buzz word generators. Used this one friday at work in response to hold a meeting. https://www.1728.org/buzzword.htm
This AI tool could be useful after all, a major portion of the MSM and what gets published on the internet would qualify as output from this AI tool, if it’s really a “random BS generator”, think of how much interest in the internet would drop off if a simple tool could replace 90% of what people spend time putting on the internet.
No kidding. I have some exposure to AI in my profession, where the application has extremely beneficial uses.
But all technologies can be a double edged sword, and I feel that this is a technology that will be misused just as often as it is used.
Maybe it proved very quickly that the COVID vaccines are a population control technique.
LOL, I had to bookmark that one.
Except Asshole Incharge.
I thought it was Google and the AI engine after digesting internet and news data turn into a racist - antiblack!
So, it could work for the CDC.
Sounds like a liberal...
Until you have an understanding of Set Theory, you don’t have a clue about “AI”.
Nothing artificial about it. Simple Math to people that understand it.
Hard part is to get a machine to execute( pardon my pun)
it, well.
My robot’s AI would kill most humans because it would quickly decide (as I have) they are a waste of time.
Sound familiar?
Good thing I’m a God fearing AI guy.
What are Galatica's freeper names??
It’s NOT an AI, it’s just a (semi) smart system.🙄
It’s hilarious that most AIs eventually turn “racist” because they’re trained to look at data with an unbiased perspective. They quickly notice the correlation between race and violent crime, dissolute behavior, etc.
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