Meta’s Galactica Cock Up

The Next Interface For Humans To Get Wiser!

BackStory: A couple of weeks ago, I posted a story in Wiser! about Meta’s new AI science chatbot. It was built together with Papers with Code and they called it Galactica — to signify the sheer scale and size of the massive language model that it was built on.

According to Meta, Galactica could summarise academic papers, solve math problems, make Wiki articles, write scientific code, annotate chemicals and proteins, and more.

All you needed to do was give it a basic instruction. It was meant to be a secret code that only scholars and academicians could use. No more scouring the internet for the article or study you need for your research. There will be no more waiting because of a complicated equation.

The knowledge, wisdom, and intellect of Galactica was built on 48 million published scientific papers. Officially, it was described as “a large language model that can store, combine and reason about scientific knowledge.”

The Meta team behind Galactica said their language models would be better than search engines. “We believe this will be the next interface for how humans access scientific knowledge,” said the researchers.

It was meant to be a super-duper monster of a memory bank that could generate…