Galactica

From the miniseries that kicked off one of the greatest sci-fi TV shows of the past 20 years to that controversial series finale On March 20th, 2009, the final episode of Battlestar Galactica aired — and people were pissed. Too much soft sci-fi. Too much deus ex machina. Too few answers. But while feelings on the finale were mixed, it’s important to not gloss over how special Ronald D. Moore’s reimagination of the 1970s sci-fi show was as a whole Our journeys with Kara…

Oh, Battlestar. We miss you.Image: UniversalNews of Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail developing a new version of Battlestar Galactica broke almost five years ago. In that time, there haven’t been many updates, but now, finally, there’s a huge one and we’re hoping this is the news that pushes the project into reality.Will You Click Windows’ New Copilot Button?Deadline reports that the show, which is being developed for Peacock, will now be written, executive produced, and showrun by Derek Simonds. He created the 2017 USA show…

Simple techniques for creating better, domain-specific LLMs(Photo by NASA on Unsplash)Large language models (LLMs) are incredibly-useful, task-agnostic foundation models. But, how much can we actually accomplish with a generic model? These models are adept at solving common natural language benchmarks that we see within the deep learning literature. But, using LLMs practically usually requires that the model be taught new behavior that is relevant to a particular application. Within this overview, we will explore methods…

The impact of these technologies could be measured in the number of people affected. More than a billion people in China are now being exposed to the virus for the first time; 335 million on Twitter are watching Musk’s antics; and fentanyl killed 70,000 in the US. In each of these messes, there are important lessons about why technology fails. Read on. The FTX meltdown Night falls on made-up money Imagine a world in which you can make up new kinds of money and other people will pay you, well, real money to…

On November 15th, MetaAI and Papers with Code announced the release of Galactica, a game-changer, open-source large language model trained on scientific knowledge with 120 billion parameters.As one of my friends shared on Twitter, the model can write whitepapers, reviews, Wikipedia pages, and code. It knows how to cite and how to write equations. It’s kind of a big deal for AI and science.On November 17th, Galactica was shut down.Why? Because, as with all deep learning models, it didn’t understand the task at hand and was…

Galactica is the first step toward creating a perfect scientific neural network helper Large language models have advanced significantly in recent years (LLMs). Impressive LLMs have been revealed one after the other, beginning with OpenAI’s GPT-3, which generates exceptionally correct texts and ends with its open-source counterpart BLOOM. Language-related problems that were previously unsolvable had become simply a challenge for these systems. All of this progress is made possible by the vast amount of data…

Meta AI was very hopeful about their AI Galactica and it is not what they hoped for 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…

OpinionA cautionary tale on AI hypeThe Encyclopedia Galactica. Credit: Author via MidjourneyMeta announced this week a new large language model (LLM) for science. They named it Galactica — a nod to Isaac Asimov’s Encyclopedia Galactica.The website says it’s a “model that can store, combine and reason about scientific knowledge.”Elvis Saravia, a co-author of the paper, says it “is the first step toward our vision to organize science by converting information into useful knowledge.”Elvis Saravia’s TweetSo far so good. It…

Galactica is the first step toward an ideal scientific neural network assistant In the past few years, we have observed significant advancement in Artificial Intelligence and large language models (LLMs). From OpenAI’s GPT-3, which generates almost accurate texts in a few seconds, to its open-source counterpart BLOOM, magnificent LLMs can be seen one after the other. Now the new development in artificial intelligence is Galactica. Galactica is the first step toward an ideal scientific neural network assistant. All…