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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.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: facebook; meta; zuckerberg
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To: BenLurkin

The Fauci V2.0


61 posted on 11/20/2022 2:59:19 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: BenLurkin

Wow, after all that time an research they were able to create another Fetterman.


62 posted on 11/20/2022 3:11:48 PM PST by PTBAA
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To: BenLurkin

Garbage in, garbage out


63 posted on 11/20/2022 3:12:38 PM PST by Homer1
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To: quikstrike98

I believe so... after reading all the posts on twitter and analyzing them


64 posted on 11/20/2022 3:13:44 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: teeman8r

My vague recollection is that a lot of Neo-Nazis and trolls had conversations with it and before long she was shouting praises of Hitler.


65 posted on 11/20/2022 3:15:51 PM PST by quikstrike98 ( )
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To: BenLurkin

produces information that sounds authoritative and convincing — but is often incorrect.

/\

Just like fauci.

/-)


66 posted on 11/20/2022 3:16:20 PM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: quikstrike98

The nice folks at 4chan took it upon themselves to ‘educate’ her.


67 posted on 11/20/2022 3:38:21 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: rellic

Yeh, ok there Vger! :-)


68 posted on 11/20/2022 3:56:27 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds like it would be something that can replace joe biden’s teleprompter.


69 posted on 11/20/2022 4:36:30 PM PST by I want the USA back (Our news media isn't worth camel spit. Neither is the democrat party. )
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To: BenLurkin

This system was written by H1B Indian slaves.


70 posted on 11/20/2022 5:49:39 PM PST by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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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."

Perhaps that is the machines way of saying, “Some do. Some do not. Most do not.”

71 posted on 11/20/2022 7:29:21 PM PST by William Tell
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To: BenLurkin

maybe galactica’s seemingly “random bullshit” summaries are actually an ACCURATE summary of the 47 million “scientific” papers it digested,and THAT’S why they had to shut it down ...


72 posted on 11/20/2022 7:43:57 PM PST by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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