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@davidgerard People who really should know better: "Yes! Let's use these things in professional astronomy and astrophysics!"
The banal reality: Among many other topics LLMs fail dismally at, they don't know one of the most challenging practical problems of modern astronomy: how telescopes work. They also fail incredibly complex astronomical tasks tasks like "Can I see this object from such-and-such location?" on the regular. https://c.im/@dpnash/116439620966675196
We present a proof-of-concept framework, Just Furnish Context (JFC)
Their acronym at least matches my response to this.
I think the key phrase there is "analysis pipeline". They aren't running accelerators they're just chewing on data post-protocol.
@davidgerard Do we know yet who these authors are? Or should I say, who's paying them?
@davidgerard People who really should know better: "Yes! Let's use these things in professional astronomy and astrophysics!"
The banal reality: Among many other topics LLMs fail dismally at, they don't know one of the most challenging practical problems of modern astronomy: how telescopes work. They also fail incredibly complex astronomical tasks tasks like "Can I see this object from such-and-such location?" on the regular. https://c.im/@dpnash/116439620966675196
They also fail incredibly complex astronomical tasks like "Can I see this object from such-and-such location?" on the regular
Back when my main computer was a 386, I had a program that could show me the night sky, on any date, from any location. It let me pan around it smoothly, could label all of the visible objects or just ones I asked for (e.g. just planets, or just this constellation).
Running it on a modern machine would use a tiny fraction of the power of an LLM.
LLMs keep failing to solve problems that were solved well 30+ years ago.
@david_chisnall @dpnash @davidgerard we've known that a while.
WordPerfect had grammar and spell checking in 1993.
The "totally conscious superintelligence that is also my abused girlfriend" box "knows" there are two R's in strawberry.
@david_chisnall @dpnash at last we have invented a computer that cannot run Doom
(nose pinch)
do these people just accept whatever is thrown at them?
do they think 4 year olds are a source for verifiable information?
do they think the speak and spell is an encyclopedia?
the amount of obvious bullshit they will happily gobble up at the trough is astonishing. sad, terrifying, and astonishing.
I am an absurdist and this is too far
@davidgerard I sense a repeat of the slew of people who discovered new maths, science and physics thanks to midnight conversations with ChatGPT, which turned out to them wandering down a rabbithole by a machine that says 'yes, and.' a whole lot by design.
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