Google DeepMind report: A new golden age of discovery: Seizing the AI for Science opportunity. One in three postdocs now use large language models to help carry out literature reviews, coding, and editing.I recommend to anyone who wishes to understand more on how AI is and could impact science, or is developing AI policy, to... Continue Reading →
Presentation of uncertainty in geoscience Large Language Models (LLM)
Presentation of uncertainty in geoscience Large Language Models (LLM) is likely to be an important part of ethical design. A factual dataset was open-sourced by Wei et al (2024) “SimpleQA” a few weeks ago containing over 4,300 generic factual questions and answers.One use of these data was to test the stated confidence of an LLM... Continue Reading →
Released today: “The first AI system trained for geoscience”
GeologyOracle has been released today, free to use. "It is the first AI assistant specifically trained for geoscience. A typical GeologyOracle session resembles an instant messaging chat, i.e., the human user inputs information, which can be in the form of text, images, or audio, and the AI system simulates the conversation by generating a real-time... Continue Reading →
First peer reviewed research paper on Geological Aware Large Language Model (LLM) RAG system
A Geological Aware Large Language Model to be released November 14th 2024: University researchers have experimented using open-access geoscience papers to guide OpenAI’s GPT-4, a system they call “GeologyOracle”.The authors, Baucon and Neto de Carvalho, are from the University of Genova and Lisbon respectively, the latter also from UNESCO Global Geoparks. As the paper was... Continue Reading →
Using Large Language Models to automatically create descriptions of geological images
Using Large Language Models (LLM) for automated geoscience image descriptions. There are some interesting techniques being applied to geoscience information using Frontier AI.When a large volume of images exists, having automated techniques may help us geologists sift through it all, gain insights or pointers to potentially interesting features or areas that may warrant further investigation.Its... Continue Reading →