😱 Did you know? Cosmic rays is one of the greatest threat to interplanetary travel with people onboard the spacecraft, and… they can make your LLM training fail.

That’s what Google researchers said in their Gemini paper (cf screenshot), or at least in an earlier version of it, they removed this statement in a later version.

Maybe because they made peace with cosmic rays. ☮

I wonder how they can be so confident in attributing some failures to “external factors” 🤔