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[Discussion] An openwebtext equivalent for papers on arxiv and other pre-print websites?
I was wondering if there are any on-going efforts to build a database such as openwebtext but for academic pre-print repositories such as arxiv and ssrn? Of course, having final versions of papers as published in journals or conferences would be best but that may prove harder to get. And then again, most authors always put the final version of the paper on the pre-print websites. I was thinking about how having a model such as GPT-3 but trained on domain knowledge from the above-mentioned pre-print sites, can help surface deep connections during the writing process. Imagine giving GPT-4 a latex code for your table and having it produce a discussion of the results and drawing insights between your numbers and other similar numbers as reported in the literature.
AI: The Folklore of Artificial Intelligence - #FolkloreThursday
Myths, as most readers will know, are stories that explain natural occurrences and express beliefs of right and wrong, while legends are, in the context of this article, popular myths of more recent origin. Myths and legends apply as much to contemporary science as to ancient historical phenomenon. The myths and legends of AI, which examined in this article, will illustrate exemplify that statement. Artificial Intelligence ("AI") is the engineering science of making intelligent machines and software imitate human behaviour and intelligence. The alleged impact of AI has focussed on the behaviour of humans in a world where AI moves centre stage in discharging roles and tasks, which humans have performed historically. Popular publications are the source of many myths and legends which have grown-up around AI Novels from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, through Samuel Butler's Erewhon to the novel of Brian Aldiss all feature creations which might replace the human being as the dominant specie.