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Meta-formerly- Facebook has taken down an artificial intelligence it created that wrote academic papers.
Three days of experts and random social media users dunking on the scientific paper-trained Large Language Model (LLM) over its penchant to spit out made up nonsense caused Meta to pull the plug on its Galactica Artificial Intelligence.
Gary Marcus, an artificial intelligence expert, called the system's output "bullshit" in his Substack and noted that it follows in the footsteps of Openai's GPT-3 text generator.
The neuroscience and artificial intelligence enthusiast asked how he could put this politely. It is prevaricate. A large amount.
The project showed that contemporary artificial intelligence can produce lots of words that stay on a theme, but that doesn't make sense.
One of the funniest examples of Galactica's tendency towards BS was posted by David Chapman, who used to write an article about bears in space. The neural network made up a story about a Soviet space bear named "Bars" that was launched into the sky and burned up on a rocket.
Chapman wrote that it was hilarious.
Marcus wrote that the quick take down of the projects was akin to a public admission that the bot was released too early.
The reality is that large language models like GPT3 are powerful but reckless. The challenge of misinformation is likely to be greatly increased by them.
People can't stop feeding their selfies into a super mean artificial intelligence.
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