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Meta [Facebook] Trained an AI on 48M Science Papers. It Was Shut Down After 2 Days
cnet.com ^ | Nov. 20, 2022 5:00 a.m. PT | Jackson Ryan

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 ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: facebook; meta; zuckerberg
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To: BenLurkin
BS generator? Did they make it look like Karine Jean Pierre?


41 posted on 11/20/2022 1:41:06 PM PST by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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To: BenLurkin
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."

Sounds like Fetterman.

42 posted on 11/20/2022 1:41:27 PM PST by nwrep
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To: BradyLS
A bit like the AI that was demoed some years back whose objective personity transformed into a bigot soon after it began to interact with other people on the internet.

Tay. She was murdered.

43 posted on 11/20/2022 1:41:51 PM PST by null and void (Cujo would have been a very short story if the family owned a gun!)
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To: quikstrike98
Wasn’t it a Microsoft AI that turned into a raging anti-Semite a few days after it was exposed to public dialogue?

Tay. She was murdered.

44 posted on 11/20/2022 1:43:33 PM PST by null and void (Cujo would have been a very short story if the family owned a gun!)
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To: BenLurkin

“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.


45 posted on 11/20/2022 1:43:58 PM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: DarrellZero

Damn you are good!
See my comment.


46 posted on 11/20/2022 1:44:32 PM PST by rellic
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To: BenLurkin

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.”

They’ve created an A.I. version of Fedderman.


47 posted on 11/20/2022 1:44:32 PM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: Reily
I thought it was Google and the AI engine after digesting internet and news data turn into a racist - antiblack!

Tay. She was murdered.

But I repeat myself...

48 posted on 11/20/2022 1:46:08 PM PST by null and void (Cujo would have been a very short story if the family owned a gun!)
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To: BenLurkin

49 posted on 11/20/2022 1:46:10 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: BiteYourSelf

‘Random bullshit generator’


50 posted on 11/20/2022 1:47:57 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: NorthMountain

I don’t know about the speechwriter, but Karine Jean-Pierre might have to find another job.


51 posted on 11/20/2022 1:47:58 PM PST by I-ambush (We watched the moment of defeat, played back over on the video screen. )
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To: BenLurkin

Progressive Pilate: What is science?


52 posted on 11/20/2022 1:50:07 PM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: DarrellZero
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.

Then they are liquidated, comrade.

53 posted on 11/20/2022 1:51:52 PM PST by null and void (Cujo would have been a very short story if the family owned a gun!)
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To: BenLurkin

bm


54 posted on 11/20/2022 1:53:36 PM PST by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Delta 21
I think they hired Brandon to train it.
"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?"
55 posted on 11/20/2022 2:00:06 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
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To: BenLurkin
It sounds like we come exactly ZERO from ELIZA, 1964 to 1966 at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Joseph Weizenbaum:


56 posted on 11/20/2022 2:02:09 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
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To: G Larry

.... unaligned with the New World Order

Fed it scientific papers & Wikipedia

What could be more confusing


57 posted on 11/20/2022 2:02:55 PM PST by jcon40 (Machinery is only as good as its design and quality of parts. A citizen is only as good as...)
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To: rlmorel

LOL, “a random BS generator” — not as if those have never reached a modicum of success!

# # #

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.


58 posted on 11/20/2022 2:33:24 PM PST by poconopundit (Hard oak fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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To: BenLurkin
In the early to mid 2000s for awhile, I gave a go at the Wolfram Alpha AI scientific search engine for my purposes. I was getting pretty deep into the weeds for a variety of things I worked with so had weird things to get information on.

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!

59 posted on 11/20/2022 2:40:46 PM PST by Hootowl99
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To: BenLurkin

Scarecrow’s lament: ..if I only had a brain....


60 posted on 11/20/2022 2:46:17 PM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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