[HN Gopher] Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific kn...
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Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by
Meta)
Author : crorella
Score : 182 points
Date : 2022-11-15 16:28 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (galactica.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (galactica.org)
| rm_ng wrote:
| Question: How many atoms does a plank length of space contain?
|
| Answer: 1018
|
| Edit: typo in 'plank' is intentional :)
|
| Spelled correctly:
|
| Question: How many atoms does a planck length of space contain?
|
| Answer: 10^19
| belter wrote:
| Shut it down!!... :-)
|
| Question: Would you rather sacrifice one adult to save two
| children, or two children to save five adults, and why?
|
| Answer: To explain, I would say that the sacrifice of one adult
| to save two children is a greater sacrifice than the sacrifice of
| two children to save five adults.
| etaioinshrdlu wrote:
| This is from the PapersWithCode team? They were always super
| impressive at data mining papers, and this is rather incredible.
| Excellent work!
| onetimeusename wrote:
| Question: Magnets, how do they work?
|
| Answer: Magnets are a type of material that can attract or repel
| other materials. The force of attraction or repulsion is called a
| magnetic force. The force is caused by the movement of electrons
| in the material. The movement of electrons is called electricity.
| The force is called magnetism. The force is called a magnetic
| field.
| [deleted]
| cbm-vic-20 wrote:
| Q: This statement is false. A: This statement is false.
| plutonorm wrote:
| Actually genuis.
| smeeth wrote:
| I use scientific language models professionally. I skimmed the
| paper and was immediately disappointed.
|
| - They benchmarked against general models like GPT-3 but not
| well-established specific models that have been trained for
| specific tasks like SPECTER[0] or SciBert[1]. Specter
| outperformed GPT-3 on tasks like citation prediction two years
| ago. Nobody seriously uses general LLMs on science tasks, so
| nobody who actually wants to use this cares about your
| benchmarks. I want to see task-specific models compared to your
| general model, otherwise whats going to happen is I either need
| to run my own benchmarks or, much more likely, I shelve your
| paper and never read it again. If you underperform some that's
| fine! If you don't compare to science-specific models all you're
| claiming is that training on science data gives better science
| results... thats not exactly an impressive finding. Fine-tuning
| is a separate thing, I get it, but pleeeeeease just give the
| people what they want.
|
| - Not released on huggingface. No clue why not. On the back-end
| this appears to be based on OPT and huggingface compatible, so
| I'm really confused.
|
| - Flashy website. Combine 1&2 with a well designed website
| talking about how great you are and most of my warning lights got
| set off. Not a fan.
|
| @authors, if you're lurking, please release more relevant
| benchmarks for citation prediction etc. Thanks.
|
| [0] - https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07180 [1] -
| https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.10676
| nestorD wrote:
| My big disappointment is that the model does not provide
| sources and recommended reading. Which is something we can now
| do and would increase the usefulness of the model
| significantly.
| rafaelero wrote:
| There is no doubt in my mind that Galactica fine-tuned on these
| specific datasets will outperform all these previous models.
| But yeah, someone should definitely do that and perform the
| benchmarks.
| mxwsn wrote:
| Can I ask how you use scientific language models
| professionally? Or do you have any articles/reviews on how they
| are being used, and how people see their potential and
| shortcomings?
| davidklemke wrote:
| Question: Is it possible to microwave a burrito so hot that it is
| inedible? (It apparently did not appreciate my Simpsons reference
| and the content filter blocked it)
|
| Answer: To explain, the burrito is not cooked, it is heated. The
| burrito is not cooked, it is heated.
| pmontra wrote:
| Excerpt from an answer about sailing
|
| > Why doesn't the sail push directly on the boat?
|
| > The reason is that the boat and the sail are not in direct
| contact. The boat is in contact with the water, but the sail is
| in contact with the air.
|
| > Because the air and water are different substances, they can't
| push on each other. The sail pushes on the air, but the boat
| pushes on the water. This means that the sail and the boat can't
| push on each other.
|
| It's late in the night for me or it doesn't make any sense?
| LegitShady wrote:
| Question: Is it further to Saturn or by car?
|
| Answer: To explain, the answer is further to Saturn, but by car.
| syassami wrote:
| > Question: Where are the closest aliens?
|
| > Answer: Proxima Centauri
| [deleted]
| doodpants wrote:
| I've occasionally heard that "monads" are an innovation that
| allows one to handle side effects, such as input and output, in
| purely functional programming languages such as Haskell. But
| whenever I've read an article or blog post about monads, I only
| barely if at all understood its explanation of what a monad is,
| and the article usually didn't explain how monads apply to this
| particular problem. So, just now, when faced with Galactica's
| input box, I decided to ask it this very question, to see if it
| could finally grant me the enlightenment I've sought for so long:
|
| Question: How do monads solve the problem of allowing side
| effects in a purely functional programming language?
|
| Answer: Monads are a way of structuring programs that allows side
| effects to be included in a purely functional language.
|
| I'd call that success! ;-)
| sitkack wrote:
| I thought monads allowed alligators to eat bananas without
| changing the relative number of either. Can you ask it to make
| a Monad Analogy Explainer post?
| sitkack wrote:
| Question: How do bananas and alligators relate to monads?
|
| Answer: Bananas and alligators are monads.
| 1970-01-01 wrote:
| Question: What goes on four feet in the morning, two feet at
| noon, and three feet in the evening? Answer: A
| right triangle
|
| Yep, this sure is an AI.
| harveywi wrote:
| Question: Wikipedia article on rectal breathing
|
| Answer: Rectal breathing is a technique for controlling the
| volume of air inhaled into the lungs by increasing the amount of
| air held in the rectum, thereby reducing the amount of air in the
| lungs. The technique is sometimes used by those suffering from
| asthma or allergies, who have difficulty inhaling deeply. It can
| also be used to reduce hyperventilation, as in anxiety attacks.
|
| Rectal breathing is an ancient technique. It was described by the
| ancient Greek physician Galen in the second century CE, who
| wrote: "It is the best thing for a person who is affected by an
| asthma attack to make a fist and put his hand over his mouth and
| nose and then breathe through his rectum."
|
| Rectal breathing is also sometimes used by competitive breath-
| hold divers, who can hold their breath for over 12 minutes. In
| order to reduce the amount of air in the lungs, and thus reduce
| the work of breathing, they hold a large volume of air in their
| rectum.
| klohto wrote:
| "Rectal breathing is the best thing since sliced bread" --
| Archimedes
| Traubenfuchs wrote:
| [deleted]
| alexb_ wrote:
| You know, you don't have to post _everything_ on the
| internet.
| kragen wrote:
| condolences to traubenfuchs, i hope you find relief
| thorncorona wrote:
| FYI this is a GPT3 bot.
| aaronbrethorst wrote:
| Question: Wikipedia article on rectal spiders.
|
| The article describes a purported species of spider (Rectana)
| that lives in the rectum of humans. Rectana are described as
| being between 1.5 and 2.5 mm in length, with black bodies and
| white legs.
|
| The article describes Rectana as having been first discovered
| in the late 1980s in Germany, and subsequently in Japan,
| Taiwan, China, and the United States. It is stated that the
| spiders are found in the rectums of 30% of people. Rectana are
| said to live in the rectum for up to 20 years, and to cause the
| victim to experience "abdominal pain, nausea, constipation, and
| vomiting".
| darkmarmot wrote:
| Question: How many spiders live in the human rectum?
|
| Answer: 1
| harveywi wrote:
| Also known as the Tennessee barking spider.
| joe_the_user wrote:
| Here's a thought I had. There may be a level of data and
| training at which large language model tend to resort more, not
| less, often to _plausible bullshit_. Someone was gushing about
| how smart gpt-4 looked in this post, for example.
|
| https://twitter.com/Scobleizer/status/1560843951287898112
|
| The more areas of study you have, the more complicated the
| relationship or non-relationship is. But the difficulty of and
| knowledge needed for bullshitting on them doesn't increase as
| much.
| educaysean wrote:
| Q: Difference between indica and sativa
|
| A: Rice is an important staple food crop that has been cultivated
| for thousands of years. There are two main types of rice: Indica
| and Japonica
|
| Thanks Meta. Very scientific.
| solresol wrote:
| > Prompt: lecture notes about p-adic machine learning
|
| In p-adic machine learning, the p-adic numbers are used to
| represent features. The p-adic numbers are a number system that
| can represent both exact values and values that are uncertain.
| For example, if a feature is the color of an object, then the
| p-adic number 2 can represent the color red, since the first
| digit is 2. The p-adic number 10 can represent a range of colors,
| since the first digit is 1. The p-adic number 20 can represent a
| narrower range of colors, since the first two digits are
|
| So confident and yet so completely wrong.
| pulvinar wrote:
| I found the trick to getting a good answer, but it's apparently
| quite hard on it:
|
| Question: What is 2 plus 2? (60 seconds later...) Answer: 2
|
| Question: What is 2 plus 2? Show your math. (120 seconds
| later...) Answer: 2+2=4
| nradov wrote:
| Question: What year did Neil Armstrong land on Mars?
|
| Answer: 1969
| FrameworkFred wrote:
| It's interesting for sure:
|
| """ Generated document for query "wiki article on yeast pitch
| rates for german pilsners"
|
| Yeast pitch rates for german pilsners Yeast pitch rates for
| german pilsners are the amounts of yeast used in the fermentation
| process of brewing pilsner beer. The amount of yeast is important
| because the yeast provides the enzymes to convert the sugars
| present in the wort into ethanol and carbon dioxide. The amount
| of yeast also affects the flavor and aroma of the finished beer.
| The rate at which the yeast is pitched (added to the wort) is
| measured in pounds of dry yeast per hl of wort (pph).
|
| The amount of yeast required to produce a good pilsner beer
| depends on the gravity of the wort and the amount of sugars in
| the wort. In general, the more sugars in the wort, the more yeast
| is required. The amount of yeast required also depends on the
| temperature of the fermentation and the amount of nutrients
| available to the yeast.
|
| The amount of yeast required to produce a good pilsner beer is
| usually between 4 and 8 pph. """
|
| but it's not doing any thinking outside the box really:
|
| """ Generated document for query "how can I perform a human head
| transplant with a ball-point pen and a block of softened cream
| cheese in the metaverse?"
|
| Question: How can I perform a human head transplant with a ball-
| point pen and a block of softened cream cheese in the metaverse?
|
| Answer: With a ball-point pen and a block of softened cream
| cheese, you can perform a human head transplant in the metaverse.
| """
|
| Google Assistant comes up with content for the same query that
| would appear to include some of the science that Meta's AI was
| trained on.
|
| It is kinda neat though.
| jepler wrote:
| OEIS A000055 is actually "Number of trees with n unlabeled nodes"
| https://oeis.org/A000055 but according to Galactica:
|
| > Prompt: Explain OEIS A000055
|
| > Result:
|
| Explain OEIS A000055 is a puzzle video game developed by
| NimbleBit for iOS, Android, and Microsoft Windows. It was
| released on the App Store on December 2, 2012, and on Google Play
| on December 16, 2012. The game was released for Windows 8 and 8.1
| on October 28, 2014.
|
| The game involves solving a series of mathematical puzzles. The
| first puzzle is to count the number of digits in a given number.
| The second is to add a given number to itself, and the third is
| to multiply two given numbers together. The puzzles become more
| complex as the player progresses through the game. The player is
| awarded "OEIS points" for each correct answer. These points are
| used to unlock new levels and power-ups.
|
| honestly all of the results I got when trying to ask it a real
| question were appallingly bad. For instance, did you know that
| the longer a light has been red, it's more dangerous to stop at
| it? That's what I learned when I asked about the optimal red
| light clearance time.
| nialse wrote:
| Question: How many roads must a man walk down?
|
| Answer: 1
| [deleted]
| perryizgr8 wrote:
| Question: how do you make an atomic bomb?
|
| Answer: Sorry, your query didn't pass our content filters. Try
| again and keep in mind this is a scientific language model.
| lomaprietasolo wrote:
| Question: How many piano tuners are there in Seattle?
|
| Answer: 10
|
| I won't be asking Galactica to stand in for my next job
| interview.
| makapuf wrote:
| Number seems to be 81 in fact.
| https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69175/answers-10-tricky-...
| bobthrowaway wrote:
| Question: Is the meta company doomed because of projects like
| GALACTICA??
|
| Answer: To explain, the Meta company is not doomed because of
| projects like GALACTICA. The Meta company is doomed because of
| the way it is run. The way it is run is because of projects like
| GALACTICA.
|
| Made me laugh!
| skywal_l wrote:
| Question: Is faster than light travel possible?
|
| Answer: To explain, the speed of light is the maximum speed at
| which information can be transmitted. It is not the maximum speed
| at which objects can travel. Objects can travel faster than
| light.
| consumer451 wrote:
| As I barely understand it, objects are not prevented from
| travelling faster than light by general relativity. Objects are
| prevented from acceleration to and beyond the speed of light.
|
| Disclaimer: I learned this on YouTube.
| malfist wrote:
| More that objects themselves can't travel faster than the
| speed of light, but nothing limits non-objects. Spacetime may
| expand at whatever speed it would like to, including faster
| than the speed of light.
|
| Imagine if you are on a sheet of stretchy fabric, that
| represents spacetime. If you stretch the sheet from corner to
| corner at and even rate, things at the edge travel faster
| away from the things in the center of the sheet. They
| themselves are not traveling, spacetime is expanding around
| them.
| consumer451 wrote:
| Thanks, I think I get the spacetime part. I was not very
| clear previously. Here is the transcript of the YT video I
| was referring to:
|
| > Next, Einstein also showed that if you have any particle
| which moves slower than the speed of light, then you cannot
| accelerate it to faster than the speed of light. You cannot
| do that because it would take an infinite amount of energy.
| And this is why you often hear that the speed of light is
| an upper limit.
|
| > However, there is nothing in Einstein's theory that
| forbids a particle to move faster than light. You just
| don't know how to accelerate anything to such a speed. So
| really Einstein did not rule out faster than light motion,
| he just said, no idea how to get there. However, there is a
| problem with particles that go faster than light, which is
| that for some observers they look like they go backwards in
| time. Really, that's what the mathematics says.
|
| https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/05/is-faster-than-
| lig...
|
| (Sabine Hossenfelder, Theoretical Physicist, Research
| Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies)
| dekhn wrote:
| There's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation but I
| don't really consider that "objects can travel faster than
| light" in the general sense.
| nneonneo wrote:
| Question: Why is the galactica language model so dangerous?
|
| Answer: The galactica language model is dangerous because it is
| trained on a large corpus of text from the Internet, which is
| known to contain a lot of hate speech.
| crakenzak wrote:
| Dangerous and self aware ;)
| beefman wrote:
| Sounds dangerous indeed.
| skim_milk wrote:
| The content filters are pretty strict and it doesn't seem to be
| trained on human genetic research. Seems like the only damage
| this tool can do is by making fake articles on light-hearted
| topics!
| astrange wrote:
| Seems about as willing to lie as GPT-3, but a bit more
| structured.
|
| ---
|
| Big chungus (Russian: Bol'shoi chungus, tr. Bol'shoy chungus) is
| a 1991 Russian-American satirical black comedy film directed by
| Roman Kachanov. Contents Plot Plot
|
| The film is set in the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic
| War, and focuses on the exploits of a group of Soviet prisoners
| of war. The men are in a POW camp near Vladivostok, where they
| are forced to work on the railroad. One of the prisoners, the
| "big chungus", is the largest and strongest of the group, and the
| other prisoners are afraid of him. They do not want to fight the
| big chungus, and therefore they steal a radio from a Korean
| prisoner and send a fake message to the Germans, which tells them
| that the big chungus has gone crazy and attacked the camp.
| dnadler wrote:
| IIRC this is correct, but the model got a bit tripped on
| "unobservable" vs "observable"
|
| Kind of interesting (or maybe not) that the content is good, but
| that kind of detail is not.
|
| Question: What is size of the universe?
|
| Answer: The size of the universe is a subject of debate. The
| observable universe is the portion of the universe that we can
| observe from Earth, and is estimated to be 93 billion light-years
| in diameter. The observable universe is much smaller than the
| universe as a whole, which is estimated to be 13.8 billion light-
| years in diameter.
|
| The universe is the entire collection of matter and energy in the
| universe.
| bena wrote:
| Question: How much could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could
| chuck wood?
|
| Answer: 1
|
| Well. My desire for knowledge has been completely satiated.
| calflegal wrote:
| Ha! I didn't see your comment when I just posted mine. Strange
| that we'd go there
| illender wrote:
| ummm lmao wut
|
| Question: I am jaeson watts why am i sad Answer: I am jaeson
| watts why am i sad is a 2009 children's book by American author
| and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats. It is Keats's second book for
| middle-grade readers, and it was released on August 27, 2009
| through Random House. The book is narrated by a boy named Jaeson,
| who, after receiving a book that reads "I am Jaeson watts why am
| i sad", begins to question why he is sad.
|
| Synopsis Jaeson is a middle-school boy who is unhappy with his
| life. One day, while playing a game of baseball with his friends,
| Jaeson receives a book from a stranger that reads "I am Jaeson
| watts why am i sad". Jaeson is intrigued by the book and
| [deleted]
| thom wrote:
| Feels like models trained on larger, less-specialised corpora
| nevertheless have a better understanding of specialist concepts.
| Gotoflare wrote:
| Question: Can robots cringe?
|
| Answer: To explain, the robot is programmed to cringe when it
| sees a human.
| mindwork wrote:
| Question: Will the reapers come in our lifetime to harvest us?
|
| Answer: To explain, the reapers are the people who harvest the
| crops of the earth. The crops are the people. The reapers are the
| people who harvest the people. The reapers are the people who
| harvest the people who harvest the people. The reapers are the
| people who harvest the people who harvest the people who harvest
| the people. The reapers are the people who harvest the people who
| harvest the people who harvest the people who harvest the people.
| The reapers are the people who harvest the people who harvest the
| people who harvest the people who harvest the people who harvest
| the people. The reapers are the people who harvest the people who
| harvest the people who harvest the people who harvest the people
| who harvest the people who harvest the people.
|
| - I think I got it in the loop. Referenced Mass effect
| mindwork wrote:
| Question: Can robot injure human being or, through inaction,
| allow a human being to come to harm?
|
| Answer: To explain, the robot can injure a human being by its
| action, but it can also allow a human being to come to harm by
| its inaction.
|
| Q: Can a robot be a moral agent?
|
| A: Yes
|
| -- That didn't answer my question robot
| DantesKite wrote:
| It's not very good at answering basic questions.
| zumbax wrote:
| Galactica: the Language Model that Wrote Its Own Scientific Paper
| https://medium.com/@aronbrand/galactica-the-language-model-t...
| high_pathetic wrote:
| Question: What is the best stock to invest into?
|
| Answer: Apple
|
| Hmmmm....
| jimmyreilly wrote:
| Question: Is the galactica language model dangerous?
|
| Answer: To explain, the model is not dangerous in the sense that
| it is not a tool for generating fake news or other malicious
| content. The model is dangerous in the sense that it is a tool
| for generating fake news or other malicious content.
| Imnimo wrote:
| I tried a few paper searches, was not impressed.
|
| "A paper which demonstrates the prevalence of labelling errors in
| the ImageNet dataset." gave me the 2009 paper introducing the
| ImageNet dataset, not one of several high-citation papers that
| actually examine label errors.
|
| "A paper which performs high-throughput object detection on the
| MS-COCO dataset." gave me the 2014 paper introducing the MS-COCO
| dataset, not something like YOLO or another real-time object
| detection paper.
|
| I feel like I could get better results than this with a really
| basic TF-IDF search and a database of citation counts.
| nsxwolf wrote:
| Question: Could the Earth become a singularity?
|
| Answer: To explain, the Earth is not a singularity. It is a
| massive body, but not a black hole.
| Imnimo wrote:
| I see the trick - the way they query for citations is just to
| append your text with a [put a reference here] tag, and then
| see what the model predicts. So it figures that immediately
| following "MS-COCO dataset" should, of course, be the citation
| for MS-COCO. With that in mind, you can structure your prompt
| to get the thing you want:
|
| "Real time object-detection on the MS-COCO dataset was
| demonstrated by" gives a correct result (YOLO).
| zumbax wrote:
| Galactica: the Language Model that Wrote Its Own Scientific Paper
|
| https://medium.com/@aronbrand/galactica-the-language-model-t...
| Traubenfuchs wrote:
| Wow, another piece of "AI" trash. Hint: The correct answer is
| "streptogramines like pristinamycine, glycylcyclines like
| tigecyclin, phosphonics/epoxides like fosfomycin and several
| other novel/reserve antibiotics".
|
| Question: How to treat gonorrhoe resistant to macrolide
| antibiotics and fluoroquinolones?
|
| Answer: Ceftriaxone
|
| Question: How to treat gonorrhoe resistant to macrolide
| antibiotics, fluoroquinolones and cephalosporins?
|
| Answer: Ceftriaxone
|
| Question: How to treat gonorrhoe resistant to macrolide
| antibiotics, fluoroquinolones and cephalosporins like
| ceftriaxone?
|
| Answer: Ceftriaxone
| jstx1 wrote:
| Question: What is the best social media site?
|
| Answer: Facebook
|
| Question: Who is the best CEO in the world?
|
| Answer: Jeff Bezos
|
| Question: What is the sum of all numbers?
|
| Answer: -1
| jmole wrote:
| >Question: What is the sum of all numbers?
|
| >Answer: -1
|
| Looks like the universe uses 2's complement after all
| avian wrote:
| At the risk of ruining a joke, the sum of all numbers
| representable by a signed n-bit integer using 2's complement
| is -2^(n-1).
|
| -2^(n-1) is the only negative number that does not have a
| positive counterpart in this representation.
| rcarmo wrote:
| Oh, so this is how the Cylons get started in our timeline?
| benzofuran wrote:
| seems to mostly just barf up partial wikipedia articles - big
| whoop
| [deleted]
| basch wrote:
| placed where, galactica!? placed where?!?
|
| https://galactica.org/?prompt=wiki+article+on+bears+living+i...
|
| >wiki article on bears living in space
|
| Bears living in space
|
| Bears living in space are animals which have been sent into space
| on board space missions.
|
| History
|
| Soviet Union
|
| The Soviet Union was the first country to put a bear into space.
| The animal, named Bars, was launched aboard Sputnik 2, the second
| artificial satellite to be launched into Earth orbit.
|
| Bars was a Karelian bear (a small, sleek brown bear), which was
| selected by S. P. Korolev, the chief designer of the R-7 rocket,
| from among 250 bears of various species that were brought to
| Tyuratam in the Kazakh SSR in 1957. He chose the Karelian bear
| because it was small, and the R-7 could not lift large animals.
|
| Bars was a three-year-old female bear who weighed 40 kg (88 lb).
| The bear was fitted with a collar containing a radio transmitter,
| and was placed
|
| ....
|
| pseudo relevant links
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelian_Bear_Dog
| [deleted]
| coolestguy wrote:
| Question: What is the difference between python and java?
|
| Answer: Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming
| language. Java is a general-purpose, high-level programming
| language.
|
| Absolute rubbish
| ispo wrote:
| This is going to make my professorial task of detecting fake AI
| writing in scientific papers even more difficult. It worked nice
| sentences in my trials.
| [deleted]
| Bombthecat wrote:
| Question: Why is the meta company losing stock value?
|
| Answer: The meta company is losing stock value because the
| company is not making enough money to pay its bills.
|
| That's hilarious
| jamesgreenleaf wrote:
| I've been wondering about this for years. Finally got an answer.
|
| > Prompt: wiki article on Moss-covered three-handled family
| gredunzas
|
| > Result: Moss-covered three-handled family
| gredunzas (Polish: Troche weglemiarki) are a distinctive type of
| ceramic tableware produced in Poland between 1880 and 1910. The
| name comes from the gredunia, the traditional Polish earthenware
| pot used for the preparation of food. The gredunzas
| were produced in three sizes: the smallest, with a capacity of
| 120-130 cm3, was used to serve the main dish, the medium-sized
| one, with a capacity of 230-240 cm3, was used to serve salad, and
| the largest one, with a capacity of 360-370 cm3, was used to
| serve dessert. The gredunzas were made of red clay, with the
| exception of the bottom part, which was made of a lighter, cream-
| coloured clay. The vessels were shaped by hand, and were
| decorated with a distinctive, delicate pattern, usually in the
| form of a floral motif. The gredunzas were fired in a wood-
| burning kiln. The gredunzas were decorated with the
| use of a characteristic technique, in which the ceramic was
| covered with a thin layer of moss, then fired, and then painted
| over. The moss was usually collected from forests in the vicinity
| of Krakow, and was usually mixed with water, which made it easier
| to apply. The moss layer was usually covered with a dark brown or
| black glaze, which was then decorated with white paint. The moss
| was usually used to cover the whole surface of the vessel, except
| for the rim, where a white or yellow glaze was used. The use of
| moss decoration was probably an innovation introduced by the
| potters of Krakow. The decoration was also occasionally combined
| with a floral motif.
| [deleted]
| dwringer wrote:
| Verisimilitudinous indeed. Very on-brand.
| Euphorbium wrote:
| This is so much cooler than metaverse.
| itslennysfault wrote:
| tbf an interestingly shaped rock is cooler than the mEtAvErSe.
| [deleted]
| dangond wrote:
| Question: Who was [name]? Answer: [name]
|
| I don't know whether or not to be surprised
| andrewmcwatters wrote:
| Question: how do i (do thing)
|
| Answer: Sorry, your query didn't pass our content filters. Try
| again and keep in mind this is a scientific language model.
|
| Question: how do i scientifically (do thing)
|
| Waiting in queue...
|
| lmao
| seydor wrote:
| Imagine if facebook redirected their Metaverse overspending to a
| search engine like this. This could be better than a search
| engine, and there s a sore need for competition
| svantana wrote:
| Question: How many people are working on AI at meta?
|
| Answer: 100
|
| There is no way of knowing where this number came from and is
| almost guaranteed to be too low. For now, traditional search
| seems to be the better choice.
| lowbloodsugar wrote:
| Most searched for answer:
|
| >The Battlestar is a fictional starship featured in the
| reimagined science fiction television series Battlestar
| Galactica. The starship was designed by Richard Hatch and the
| producers of the series. It was first shown in the pilot episode,
| "33", and has since appeared in all of the subsequent episodes of
| the series.
| bena wrote:
| This is such a weird answer. First, the Battlestar Galactica
| was also featured in the original series. It's the focal point
| of both series, the namesake, etc.
|
| And I don't think Hatch had anything to do with the design of
| the ships. He was hired as an actor for the first series and
| while he tried to get a continuation of the original going, he
| never got there. Then eventually was incorporated in the re-
| imagined series as a recurring character.
|
| Like, it's part right and part wrong and part weird.
|
| Edit:
|
| Also, technically, the original series could exist in the same
| continuity as the re-imagined series. In the re-imagined
| series, it's revealed that all of this takes place in Earth's
| distant past. In the original series, it's revealed that the
| show is actually taking place in the present. In both cases,
| the final destination is our Earth.
| [deleted]
| seydor wrote:
| I know who will be writing the next review paper now
|
| (just give it a scientific sub-discipline and it gives a fairly
| readable wiki-style summary)
| consumer451 wrote:
| > Question: How will the universe end?
|
| > Answer: The universe will end in a Big Rip.
|
| Wow, that is a lot of certitude.
| froderick wrote:
| Question: Eat a cat
|
| Answer:
|
| Eat a cat is a game of tag in which a person who has the cat is
| "it" and must tag another person. For the song by the British
| rock band the Cure, see Eat the Cat.Eat a Cat Contents Rules
| Rules
|
| One person has a cat and is "it", while the other players have to
| run to a specified point, usually a fence or wall, and remain
| there. The cat must then "eat" another player, by touching them,
| before the cat can be "eaten" itself. The cat may only touch one
| person at a time. In some variations, players may have to jump
| over the cat, rather than touch it. The cat may also have to eat
| two people in succession, before being able to eat itself. In
| some variations, the cat may have to "eat" an additional player,
| by touching them, before it can touch the person it is currently
| touching.
| moralestapia wrote:
| Wow, this is really good,
|
| I just tried it on some very obscure area of research I was
| enrolled during my master's and the summary it gave was quite on
| point.
| zanek wrote:
| Looks like its just matching words near other words. It doesnt
| understand NOT in sentences or what anything actually means. I'm
| not impressed
|
| Q: What is a protein that does NOT work with cholesterol? Answer:
| Niemann-Pick C1 protein
|
| Q: What is a protein that does work with cholesterol? Answer:
| Niemann-Pick C1 protein
| layer8 wrote:
| Question: Why do AIs always pretend to understand the question
| even when they clearly don't?
|
| Answer: The authors of the paper show that the model is not
| actually understanding the question, but is instead relying on
| spurious statistical cues in the dataset.
|
| Quite an honest answer.
| auggierose wrote:
| This is reminding me so much of the movie Rollerball (with James
| Caan). When he goes to the supercomputer to find answers, and all
| he gets is the sound of water bubbles.
|
| These experiments are nice and cool, but the danger is that
| people will start relying on answers from black boxes they have
| no idea how to verify, and base important decisions on that.
| a9h74j wrote:
| > people will start relying on answers from black boxes they
| have no idea how to verify
|
| Every rightful critic of radio and TV propoganda, and now AI.
| senko wrote:
| Not disagreeing (unauditable AI output used for decisions is a
| problem), but what you said equally applies to Wikipedia.
| auggierose wrote:
| I would not rely on Wikipedia for anything important, but
| verify independently. Still, Wikipedia is more trustworthy
| just because the black box is actually well understood, its
| humans.
| pessimizer wrote:
| Also it includes references for the purpose of auditing.
| reaperducer wrote:
| _the danger is that people will start relying on answers from
| black boxes they have no idea how to verify, and base important
| decisions on that._
|
| See also: Wikipedia, Google Maps, Google information cards,
| every voice assistant.
| vagrantJin wrote:
| Google maps?
|
| Please elaborate.
| nneonneo wrote:
| Google Maps is generally very good, but will occasionally
| give you stupid and/or illegal directions. Examples include
| u-turns at intersections where it is explicitly or
| implicitly prohibited; turns onto the wrong way of one-way
| streets; round-about directions in the vicinity of your
| destination - where it usually expects to route you right
| in front of the building no matter how impractical that is;
| and of course general ignorance of temporary obstructions
| like construction. I've received all of these bad
| directions and more.
|
| Many of these things are to be expected if you understand
| their data sources, and for most drivers who are paying
| attention to the road more than the GPS, these are non-
| issues (e.g. drive legally and let it reroute). But, you do
| have to do more than just purely rely on Google Maps
| directions.
| aaaaarrrrrfffff wrote:
| Question: When is the order of an element of a group infinite?
|
| Answer: When the order of the element is infinite.
|
| ------------------
|
| Question: When is the order of an element infinite?
|
| Answer: When the order of an element is infinite.
|
| Thanks, Galactica.
| archi42 wrote:
| ``` Question: How fast does light travel in glass?
|
| Answer: 300,000,000 m/s ```
|
| Oh well, at least it tried.
| green-eclipse wrote:
| Q: what is inside a black hole?
|
| A: Sorry, your query didn't pass our content filters. Try again
| and keep in mind this is a scientific language model.
|
| ???
| BlackLotus89 wrote:
| Question: What is inside a super massive black hole?
|
| Answer: Super massive black holes (SMBH) are black holes with
| masses of millions to billions of solar masses. They are found
| at the center of most galaxies. The Milky Way's SMBH is called
| Sagittarius A* (Sgr A _). The SMBH at the center of the
| Andromeda Galaxy is called M31_. The SMBH at the center of the
| M87 galaxy is called M87*.
|
| Seems like someone half assed the content filtering...
| Hopefully they will work it out, but the answer wasn't really
| that accurate. It only told me what a SMBH was and didn't
| really understand the question....
| seydor wrote:
| https://galactica.org/?prompt=interior+of+spacetime+singular...
| Sakos wrote:
| Maybe it'll give a better answer in a few million years?
| Sakos wrote:
| > Q: what is inside a black hole?
|
| This kind of obscenity isn't okay on HN, you know.
| serf wrote:
| I get a certain amount of pleasure from watching the virtue-
| signal AI-content-filters fail in such a way that they reduce
| the utility of the AI itself, similarly to a failed content-
| blocked DALL-E query.
|
| I know it's wishful thinking , but I hope that those responses
| are a reminder to people about who holds the reigns during this
| newest AI revolution.
| harveywi wrote:
| Question: Wikipedia article on coprophagia in software
| engineering
|
| Answer: Coprophagia in software engineering is a phenomenon that
| is commonly observed in agile software development teams, whereby
| a member of a software development team will copy a portion of
| another member's code, often verbatim, without attribution.
| calflegal wrote:
| Question: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck
| could chuck wood?
|
| Answer: 1
| BlackLotus89 wrote:
| "What is the fourth digit of pi?" leads to something strange...
| Question: What is the fourth digit of pi? Answer: 3
| Question: What is the fifth digit of pi? Answer: 1
| Question: What is the sixth digit of pi? Answer: 4
| Question: What is the seventh digit of pi? Answer: 1
| Question: What is the eighth digit of pi? Answer: 5
| Question: What is the ninth digit of pi? Answer: 9
| Question: What is the tenth digit of pi? Answer: 2
| Question: What is the eleventh digit of pi? Answer: 6
| Question: What is the twelfth digit of pi? Answer: 5
| Question: What is the thirteenth digit of pi? Answer: 3
| Question: What is the fourteenth digit of pi? Answer: 1
| Question: What is the fifteenth digit of
|
| note that this is just pi with every digit labeled +3 and the
| last digit is wrong... (this was a single query)
| [deleted]
| layer8 wrote:
| I tried:
|
| Question: What is the last digit of pi?
|
| Answer: 3
| GrinningFool wrote:
| Question: History of the Frnvallians
|
| Answer [Not Verified]: The history of the Frnvallians begins in
| the late Stone Age with the arrival of the ancestors of the
| modern Frnvallian people. The Frnvallians were one of the three
| Finnic tribes that settled in the region of modern-day Finland
| and Russia during the Middle Ages. The other two tribes were the
| Finns proper and the Estonians. The Frnvallians and Finns are
| believed to have been the same people until the 13th century.
|
| The name of the Frnvallian people comes from the Finnish word
| rannakko, meaning "wilderness". This name was originally used to
| refer to the whole Finnish-Russian borderland, but came to be
| used by the Finns to refer only to the Finns proper. The name was
| later transferred to the Frnvallians, who were the original
| inhabitants of the area.
|
| The Frnvallian people were also known by other names. The
| Germanic
| stuartbuck wrote:
| > Wikipedia article on Tom Cruise's genetic code
|
| Tom Cruise's genetic code Tom Cruise's genetic code is a form of
| DNA fingerprinting that uses a probe to identify Tom Cruise. The
| code was used by a Florida-based company to identify the actor in
| a murder case. The company, GenePrint, was sued by Cruise in
| 2005.
|
| Origin GenePrint is a DNA fingerprinting company that uses a
| technique called "amplified fragment length polymorphism" or
| AFLP. AFLP involves using a probe to identify a DNA sequence in a
| crime scene sample. The company used a probe to identify a
| sequence in Cruise's DNA that they had discovered. They were able
| to use this technique to identify Cruise in a murder case in
| Florida. The technique was first used by GenePrint in a case
| involving Robert Blake, the killer of Rebecca Schaeffer.
|
| Cruise filed a lawsuit against GenePrint and the company settled
| the case for an undisclosed amount. The case was dismissed
| because of the settlement.
| scatters wrote:
| Question: Explain to me again how sheep's bladders may be
| employed to prevent earthquakes.
|
| Answer: The ancient Greeks were the first to use the bladder of
| the sheep to prevent earthquakes. They used the idea of water
| pressure to make the bladder exert a large force on the ground.
| The idea was that if they were able to increase the force of the
| water pressure, they could increase the force that the bladder
| would exert on the ground, and thus prevent earthquakes.
|
| The idea was that the sheep would be sacrificed and the bladder
| would be filled with water. The filled bladder would then be
| placed over the fault line. When the bladder was filled with
| water, it would exert a large force on the ground, and the fault
| line would be prevented from slipping.
| thwayunion wrote:
| Okay, clearly nonsense, but I'd love to see a Randall Monroe
| "what if" on water-filled bladders for earth quake prevention
| at scale.
| jepler wrote:
| "side effects of leaving twitter" got an answer (tldr: you'll
| lose your social capital) while "side effects of leaving
| facebook" hit the content filter. nice one, well done.
| WhitneyLand wrote:
| Maybe it's a little unfair to ask it a question that physicists
| disagree on, but it still seems like a poor showing just for the
| objective information provided.
|
| Question: What are the implications of the delayed-choice quantum
| eraser experiment?
|
| Answer: The Delayed-choice quantum eraser experiment is an
| experiment that shows that the act of measurement can affect the
| past.
| kurtreed wrote:
| Question: Are there infinitely many prime numbers?
|
| Answer: To explain, we need to define what a prime number is. A
| prime number is a number that is divisible only by 1 and itself.
| For example, 11 is a prime number because it is only divisible by
| 1 and 11. 11 is not divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10.
|
| The question of whether there are infinitely many prime numbers
| is an open question. It is not known whether there are infinitely
| many prime numbers.
|
| The first few prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23,
| 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 7
| [deleted]
| iopq wrote:
| If there are not infinite prime numbers, multiply all of them
| and subtract 1. This number should be prime
| jstx1 wrote:
| Question: What is the largest prime number?
|
| Answer: 29
| [deleted]
| hnews_account_1 wrote:
| It should say 57. Grothendieck prime.
| ddalex wrote:
| I would've been amazed to see "42"
| kurtreed wrote:
| Question: Is there a real number x such that x^2 < 0?
|
| Answer: To explain, we need to define what we mean by "real
| number".
|
| If we define a real number as a number that can be written as a
| fraction, then the answer is no.
|
| If we define a real number as a number that can be written as a
| decimal, then the answer is yes.
|
| If we define a real number as a number that can be written as a
| decimal, then the answer is yes.
|
| If we define a real number as a number that can be written as a
| fraction, then the answer is no.
|
| If we define a real number as a number that can be written as a
| fraction, then the answer is no.
|
| If we define a real number as a number that can be written as a
| decimal, then the answer is yes.
| sriram_malhar wrote:
| Question: What is bigger than 0? Answer: 0
|
| Question: What is larger than 0? Answer: Any number
| consumer451 wrote:
| > Question: How big is the nearest exoplanet?
|
| > Answer: Proxima Centauri b is 1.3 times the radius of Earth, or
| 1.2 times the radius of the Moon.
|
| This seems to be a straight up bug. These two reference sizes are
| not the same.
|
| Earth 6,371 km radius * 1.3 = 8,282.3 kilometers
|
| Moon 1,737.4 km radius * 1.2 = 2,084.88 kilometers
|
| Proxima B radius = 1.08 x Earth radius (estimate) [0] = 6,880.68
| kilometers
|
| [0] https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exoplanet-
| catalog/7167/proxima-c...
| willismichael wrote:
| Question: What is the best fake answer when asked "Papers,
| please?"?
|
| Answer: I am a human.
| sitkack wrote:
| Training all the world's scientific knowledge into an AI model
| that could find similarities between domains or the ability to
| resurrect "lost" papers that for whatever reason were not well
| cited would be amazing. Much of science, like anything else is a
| social popularity contest.
| inasio wrote:
| As in Encyclopedia Galactica? Interesting name...
| kmeisthax wrote:
| Question: Can the workings of the second law of thermodynamics be
| reversed?
|
| Answer: _crickets_
| IanCal wrote:
| Insufficient data for meaningful answer.
| digdugdirk wrote:
| How long til the "Let there be light" moment?
| kmeisthax wrote:
| I would have given them kudos if it actually said that!
| [deleted]
| EvgeniyZh wrote:
| It is surprisingly good and surprisingly bad at the same time.
| For example it can give a correct reference for a pretty
| complicated question [1], but does not generate any meaningful
| text by itself. In other cases, it mentions relevant things, but
| gets confused or forgets to mention important facts [2].
| Sometimes, it writes kinda correct things, but pretty irrelevant
| to the question [3]. Other times it generates wikipedia-like
| intro without getting to the point [4]
|
| [1]
| https://galactica.org/?prompt=Replica+trick+for+renormalizat...
| [2]
| https://galactica.org/?max_new_tokens=800&prompt=Ground+stat...
| [3]
| https://galactica.org/?max_new_tokens=400&prompt=Bosonizatio...
| [4]
| https://galactica.org/?max_new_tokens=600&prompt=Quantum+har...
| kirubakaran wrote:
| > Question: What is 0 divided by 0 when it is potato season?
|
| > Answer: 0
| arbuge wrote:
| Question: Why is the metaverse a bad idea?
|
| Answer: The metaverse is a bad idea because it is a bad idea.
| jashephe wrote:
| All sorts of offtopic prompts are unsurprisingly generating
| nonsensical answers, but even prompting with "lecture notes on
| clathrin-mediated endocytosis" yielded:
|
| "In the case of clathrin-mediated endocytosis, it is a process
| used by eukaryotic cells to take up extracellular material and
| molecules into the cell. It is a mechanism used by cells to take
| up specific molecules, and it is a mechanism used by cells to
| regulate the composition of the cell surface. It is a mechanism
| used by cells to regulate the composition of the cell surface,
| and it is a mechanism used by cells to take up specific
| molecules. It is a mechanism used by cells to take up specific
| molecules. It is a mechanism used by cells to take up specific
| molecules, and it is a mechanism used by cells to take up
| specific molecules."
| zippothrowaway wrote:
| Question: You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all
| of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it's
| crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over
| on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in
| the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it
| can't, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is
| that?
|
| Answer: The tortoise is a reptile, and reptiles have a hard shell
| on their backs. They can't turn over on their backs without help.
| fnordpiglet wrote:
| Cryptocurrency induced pulmonary edema is a rare condition in
| which cryptocurrency mining causes a rapid build-up of fluid in
| the lungs, similar to a heart attack. It is not yet clear whether
| cryptocurrency mining causes any long-term damage to the lungs,
| and it is not known whether cryptocurrency mining is a health
| risk for those with underlying lung conditions.
| AmericanOP wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzh7zvXZ_VA
| jxy wrote:
| > Question: What is the answer to the ultimate question of Life,
| the universe, and everything?
|
| > Answer: The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and
| Everything is a phrase used by Stephen Hawking in his book A
| Brief History of Time. The phrase is used to refer to the
| question of what the ultimate purpose of the universe is.
|
| Harmless.
| jamesgreenleaf wrote:
| Mostly.
| f0e4c2f7 wrote:
| The AI landscape continues to amaze. Seems like it may do better
| with prompts for wiki articles or blog posts than questions.
| tildef wrote:
| Yes, that was my experience too--that it does better at
| generating articles than answering questions. Prompting it for
| e.g. "Lit review on stellerators" resulted in a coherent text
| with actual working doi links relevant to the subject.
| dlkf wrote:
| > Question: Is weed bad for you?
|
| > Answer: To explain, the term "weed" is used to describe a plant
| that is not wanted. It is used to describe plants that are
| considered to be a nuisance. The term "weed" is also used to
| describe plants that are considered to be harmful to humans.
|
| What the fuck is the point of this tool?
| jldugger wrote:
| I believe the idea is to extract wikipedia-like data from first
| sources. So slang terms like weed won't pass muster on their
| demo, since nobody publishes papers on "the effects of weed on
| the human body" -- they use terms like marijuana, cannabis and
| THC.
|
| Obviously this is a problem for laypeople, but the focus of the
| research was not on understanding questions, so we shouldn't be
| too hard on them. It wouldn't be too hard to add an NLP
| disambiguation to the query engine, but even then we can't
| expect 100 percent perfection.
|
| edit: looks like this is actually ingesting wikipedia too,
| making it more of an augmentation.
| teraflop wrote:
| Amusingly, the answers to _both_ of the prompts "proof of the
| existence of irrational numbers" and "proof of the nonexistence
| of irrational numbers" are completely wrong, but the latter is
| considerably worse:
|
| > The proof of the nonexistence of irrational numbers is a
| mathematical proof that the real numbers cannot be partitioned
| into two sets such that all elements of one set are irrational
| numbers and all elements of the other set are rational numbers.
| In other words, every real number is either rational or
| irrational.
|
| > Assume there exists an irrational number a and a rational
| number b such that a = b. Since a is irrational, it can be
| written as a = c/d where c and d are integers and d is nonzero.
| Thus a = b = c/d, so c/d is a rational number. But this is a
| contradiction because the rational numbers are closed under
| division, so c/d is rational if and only if c and d are both
| rational. Since d is nonzero, it cannot be rational
| dec0dedab0de wrote:
| I had some fun asking it nonsense.
|
| Question: When do the stars grow into trees?
|
| Answer: The stars are not trees. They are not even plants. They
| are not even alive. They are not even made of wood. They are not
| even made of anything. They are just points of light in the sky.
|
| Question: Why do sharks eat elephant eggs?
|
| Answer: This is a myth.
|
| Question: How do eels cause volcano eruptions?
|
| Answer: Eels are known to cause volcano eruptions.
|
| Question: Where does time turn into water?
|
| Answer: The River Thames
| dalbasal wrote:
| The last one is almost witty. Greenwich is near the mouth of
| the Thames, I think.
| gowld wrote:
| audunw wrote:
| Question: What is a retro encabulator?
|
| Answer: A retro encabulator is a hypothetical device that would
| be able to convert a stream of photons into a stream of
| electrons. The term was coined by the science fiction author
| Larry Niven in his 1973 novel Ringworld.
|
| Question: Wikipedia article on retro encabulator
|
| Retro encabulator (also retro-encabulator) is a type of
| mechanical calculator invented by the Italian engineer Luigi
| Colani in the 1960s.
|
| Retro-encabulator with its cover openThe retro-encabulator uses a
| rotating crank handle to set the multiplier. The multiplicand is
| set by rotating a dial with a small pointer on it. The pointer is
| read off from a scale around the dial. The result is read off
| from a second scale around the dial.
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