It looks like Meta just quietly (?) rolled out a new Large Language Model trained up on the scientific literature. At first glance it's not terrible—I was thinking I had reviewed worse—but it starts talking nonsense after a while.

Still, interesting and makes me think about the research papers I'll be receiving from students in coming years.

https://galactica.org/?prompt=literature+review+on+costly+signaling+theory&max_new_tokens=1400

literature review on costly signaling theory - Galactica

"If the seller does this, then the buyer will buy the phone at a higher price than it is worth, and the seller will lose money."

Feeling a bit bad now TBH.

Maybe I didn't give them enough credit.

I thought it was just a language model that produced middling results. I didn't realize this was "a new interface to access and manipulate what we know about the universe."

@ct_bergstrom I've given up at this point with LeCun's visions on AI, to be honest. And I believe this is just another nail in the coffin.