[Lgpolicy] A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data

[Francis M. Hult via Lgpolicy]

The Conversation

A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a
glitch in AI training data

Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in
published papers: “vegetative electron microscopy”.

This phrase, which sounds technical but is actually nonsense, has become a
“digital fossil” – an error preserved and reinforced in artificial
intelligence (AI) systems that is nearly impossible to remove from our
knowledge repositories.

Full story:
https://theconversation.com/a-weird-phrase-is-plaguing-scientific-papers-and-we-traced-it-back-to-a-glitch-in-ai-training-data-254463
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