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The AI revolution in math has arrived

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Re: The AI revolution in math has arrived

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I wonder when AI will be able to discern the passage of time

It already does time in prompt-blocks. It knows time is linear and what just happened, what happened before that, and what happened before that.

When I tried to use it as an AI CEO and Life Coach, it never was able to discern time passing, what I've already done, what needed to be done. It just said the same stuff over and over, stuff I've already done. That and it's kind of stuck in the era it was trained in. If it felt time passing like a human maybe it would be conscious?

Nevertheless not having a sense of time makes it really bad at planning anything. I used Gemini Pro.

Re: The AI revolution in math has arrived

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I wonder when AI will be able to discern the passage of time

Altman has estimated one year until ChatGPT is capable of measuring time passed. https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/chatgpt/articles/chatgpt-fails-mis...

Sounds like Musk setting deadlines for Mars landings.

Re: The AI revolution in math has arrived

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There are several high value prizes for mathematical research. Let me know when an "AI" has earned one of them. Otherwise:

> When Ryu asked ChatGPT, “it kept giving me incorrect proofs,” [...] he would check its answers, keep the correct parts, and feed them back into the model

So you had a conversational calculator being operated by an actual domain expert.

> With ChatGPT, I felt like I was covering a lot of ground very rapidly

There's no way to convert that feeling into a measurement of any actual value and we happen to know that domain experts are surprisingly easy to fool when outside of their own domains.

Re: The AI revolution in math has arrived

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I wonder when AI will be able to discern the passage of time

Altman has estimated one year until ChatGPT is capable of measuring time passed. https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/chatgpt/articles/chatgpt-fails-mis...

Can’t tell if you are being sarcastic but Altman’s whole job is to make bullshit near future predictions about rapid development of AI in the public.

Re: The AI revolution in math has arrived

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Altman has estimated one year until ChatGPT is capable of measuring time passed. https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/chatgpt/articles/chatgpt-fails-mis...

Can’t tell if you are being sarcastic but Altman’s whole job is to make bullshit near future predictions about rapid development of AI in the public.

Thankyou for stating the obvious, for some reason we need to repeat this. ^^;

Re: The AI revolution in math has arrived

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> As they did so, they also learned how to improve the prompts they gave AlphaEvolve. One key takeaway: The model seemed to benefit from encouragement. It worked better “when we were prompting with some positive reinforcement to the LLM,” Gómez-Serrano said. “Like saying ‘You can do this’ — this seemed to help. This is interesting. We don’t know why.”

Four top logical people in the world are acknowledging this. It is mind-blowing and we don't know why.

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