On Tuesday, Meta AI unveiled a demo of Galactica, a large language model designed to "store, combine and reason about scientific knowledge." While intended to accelerate writing scientific literature, adversarial users running tests found i…

On November 15 Meta unveiled a new large language model called Galactica, designed to assist scientists. But instead of landing with the big bang Meta hoped for, Galactica has died with a whimper after three days of intense criticism. Yeste…

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

This is because language models can “…

🧵 Some thoughts about the recent release of Galactica by @MetaAI (everything here is my personal opinion) 👀

Let's start with the positive / What went well

[1] The model was released and Open Source*

Contrary to the trend of very interest…