Introduction

VentureBeat tell the story of Galactica, an open source “large language model for science” released by Meta just two weeks before ChatGPT. Meta touted Galactica’s ability to “summarize academic literature, solve math problems, generate Wiki articles, write scientific code, annotate molecules and proteins, and more.” Galactica survived publicly for only three days. On November 17, 2022, Meta took down the demo after an outcry over what was, back then, a word that had not yet made it into the mainstream: Hallucinations.