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.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...
Sounds like Fetterman.
Tay. She was murdered.
Tay. She was murdered.
“To explain, the answer is no. Vaccines do not cause autism. The answer is yes. Vaccines do cause autism. The answer is no.”
It sounds like Mr. Fetterman trained it.
Damn you are good!
See my comment.
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.”
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They’ve created an A.I. version of Fedderman.
Tay. She was murdered.
But I repeat myself...
‘Random bullshit generator’
I don’t know about the speechwriter, but Karine Jean-Pierre might have to find another job.
Progressive Pilate: What is science?
Then they are liquidated, comrade.
bm
"To explain, the answer is no. Vaccines do not cause autism. The answer is yes. Vaccines do cause autism. The answer is no."Or maybe Harris. They should have asked it some Harris questions: "Is space big"? "Is Ukraine a country by Russia?"
.... unaligned with the New World Order
Fed it scientific papers & Wikipedia
What could be more confusing
LOL, “a random BS generator” — not as if those have never reached a modicum of success!
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Absolutely. Probably a high percent of Doctoral dissertations in psychology or gender/race studies are total BS. But they are not randomly generated, though they appear so. They are purposefully illogical.
And they justify that by saying “truth his a social construct”. We must get rid of all federal guarantees for higher education.
The primary search engine I worked with at the time was Google. It was untrustworthy but for the time was adequate. This is also when I gave a test ride to Wolfram Alpha.
Switched to Dogpile for awhile. It was good but always trying to find something better. Found DuckDuckGo engine and used it until I retired.
Post retirement, I have switched to the Brave browser's search engine. Though retired, this doesn't mean I'm a slug now. Always poking into tech and scientific and if anything, my interests have broadened. Having fun but not getting paid for it! Lol. If there's anything I can't find adequately on Brave, DuckDuckGo go and dogpile are the backups for me.
Starting in the 1970s, I could search tech and scientific literature for info on whatever subject I needed. The hitch to this you had to do this sitting down with a specialized librarian searching expensive data bases then when you found something of interest you had to order a hard copy (pay $$$) from the original source. Example: I ordered a paper from a Russian journal. Sad face, the article was in Russian. Happy Face, Tables and graphs were in English well enough and standard scientific language and units used. Golden results to my needs. It cost a mint to do this but heck, I had a university or company account to charge it to.
Summary for me anyway…. I don't need an AI entity to filter or explain things for me. I've got my own brain. Lots I can sort out at a high level or at least well enough for my purposes. I have not ever shied away from tapping the knowledge of persons smarter than me. There are lots of them. It may be a peer, welder, truck driver, accountant, go down the list, it's infinite.
Long winded…. Think and evaluate for oneself. Overtime, develop a trusted circle to bounce things off of and to have trusted information and opinions. AI stuff, my opinion is whatever.
And…. That's my opinion!
Scarecrow’s lament: ..if I only had a brain....
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