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Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online
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Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online
Nov 23, 2022

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 “…

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The AI Incident Database is dedicated to indexing the collective history of harms or near harms realized in the real world by the deployment of artificial intelligence systems. Like similar databases in aviation and computer security, the AI Incident Database aims to learn from experience so we can prevent or mitigate bad outcomes.

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Wordcounts

These are the most common rooted and stemmed words across all incident reports. More details are available on its data summary page.

    compani

    3960

    system

    3802

    peopl

    3611

    new

    3159

    algorithm

    2831

    sai

    2699

    data

    2532

    car

    2483

    technolog

    2287

    polic

    2247
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