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 ...
The Fauci V2.0
Wow, after all that time an research they were able to create another Fetterman.
Garbage in, garbage out
I believe so... after reading all the posts on twitter and analyzing them
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.
produces information that sounds authoritative and convincing — but is often incorrect.
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Just like fauci.
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The nice folks at 4chan took it upon themselves to ‘educate’ her.
Yeh, ok there Vger! :-)
Sounds like it would be something that can replace joe biden’s teleprompter.
This system was written by H1B Indian slaves.
Perhaps that is the machines way of saying, “Some do. Some do not. Most do not.”
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 ...
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