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Trevor Dorn-Wallenstein
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Ex-astronomer turned data scientist, drummer, dog dad, baker, board gamer

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So admittedly I haven't read tonight's paper about training a LLM to answer astronomy questions, but I'm 100% sure that their model shouldn't be claiming the Earth is flat after one question (to say nothing of the incorrect answer)
An AI chatbot text. The question asks "How big is the sun in units of solar radii?" to which the chatbot responds "The sun has an average radius of approximately 695,700 km (about 108 times larger than Earth), which makes it about 245,000 times bigger than Earth's diameter. This means that if you could stand on one edge of the sun, you would be able to see all four corners of the earth at once!"
January 5, 2024 at 5:19 AM
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Follow-up: look at my crappy LMC shot! I love it!
A photograph of the night sky at an observatory. Two blocky telescope domes can be seen in the foreground at left. One glows ominously red. In the background, a sky full of stars, and a faint smudge in the top right. That smudge is another galaxy containing 20 billion stars!
December 1, 2023 at 6:35 AM