I am trying to think of a reason for why there are many articles announcing the start of a grand initiative, but few that would announce one coming to fruition. Can't quite put my finger on it.
They need content, but what do you mean they wouldn’t announce one coming to fruition? I bet they would if it was a slow news day, or just depending on what cooler things are available.
I’m fairly skeptical about AI hype, but there are probably plenty of applications of the tech for use in scientific discovery.
Just not the “Albert Einstein bot” or whatever that gives you fully formed scientific theories.
More like tools to search large spaces for theories/theorems that seem likely that can then be independently verified. As I understand it we’ve been using AI in space exploration/astronomy for a long time to search data generated from telescopes I can imagine there are analogous uses for chatGPT style solutions.
"An international team of scientists, including from the University of Cambridge, have launched a new research collaboration that will leverage the same technology behind ChatGPT to build an AI-powered tool for scientific discovery."
They can't probably join BLOOM collaboration, while BLOOM has already released a model and probably will not receive anymore funding. BLOOM model is the only model that spooked me by answering "I do not know. I do not know. I do not know..." on some of my questions.
The word "simple" is really loaded here. Is the universe a simple mix of existing physics? Is a 70B parameter matrix of numbers containing the relative relationships between a significant chunk of published human knowledge actually that simple?
