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A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

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Re: A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

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Post by colechristensen »

dabinat wrote: post #47

I feel like this experiment was successful because those prompting the AI were knowledgeable enough to ask the right questions and verify the output was correct. This shows that there is still a place for expertise, even if the LLM does the actual research.

I feel my input to LLMs is most valuable in the initial idea, big picture design tweaks, and the vast majority of my usefulness is negative feedback. This looks wrong, you've gotten off track, you're cheating with workarounds, you're falling into a rabbithole, etc.

Re: A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

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Post by qq66 »

NotOscarWilde wrote: post #11

As a TCS assistant professor from Eastern Europe, I always am a little jealous of the biggest names in math having such an easy access to the expensive, long thinking models. Paying for Pro from any of my current academic budgets is completely ouf of the field of reality here -- all budgets tend to have restricted uses and software payments fit into very few categories. Effectively, I'd have to ask for a brand new gr…

Paste what you want me to ask 5.5 Pro and I'll paste you the response.

Re: A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

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Post by xmprt »

fuzzy2 wrote: post #38
dyauspitr wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s what most people spend on their phone and Internet connections per month in the US. That’s what the average American family spends on just five days of food.

Yes and? That's money that is already allocated. It cannot be spent on something else.

No you don't get it. If the family just starved for 5 days then they could increase revenue for these AI companies.

Re: A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

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Post by thierrydamiba »

vthallam wrote: post #45
NotOscarWilde wrote: post #11

As a TCS assistant professor from Eastern Europe, I always am a little jealous of the biggest names in math having such an easy access to the expensive, long thinking models. Paying for Pro from any of my current academic budgets is completely ouf of the field of reality here -- all budgets tend to have restricted uses and software payments fit into very few categories. Effectively, I'd have to ask for a brand new gr…

@NotOscarWilde drop your email here, I will reach out and happy to get you a pro account for a few months so you can try 5.5 pro.(work at OAI)

Shoutout to you-I will match it if they need other resources. (I don’t work at OAI, just think this is cool)

Re: A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

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Post by revolvingthrow »

goobatrooba wrote: post #46
iammrpayments wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Average European salary is around $4000/month, in eastern Europe is half of that. Median is probably lower than that. Makes me want to quit visiting places like reddit where everybody claims to be making 100k+/year

All salary discussions need a cost of living context. Yes in Europe you earn a bit less but the public services are much better than in the US and one emergency (r.g. healthcare) won't ruin you as it's mostly a public system. I'll take a Euro salary and qualify life over a FIRE-typs salary and daily fear of falling into the abyss any day.

Given the topic and the fact llm providers charge global rates, the absolute take-home money is much more relevant. Even if you live like a king on $1000/mo, 5.5 pro is still $200.

Re: A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

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Post by alsetmusic »

thierrydamiba wrote: post #54
vthallam wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

@NotOscarWilde drop your email here, I will reach out and happy to get you a pro account for a few months so you can try 5.5 pro.(work at OAI)

Shoutout to you-I will match it if they need other resources. (I don’t work at OAI, just think this is cool)

You know what, I'm ashamed that I didn't think of this. I'll sponsor three months. Email in my hn profile. I don't understand the math in the article, but I'd love to help you make progress in it.

Re: A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

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Post by reasonableklout »

slopinthebag wrote: post #57

AI generated article btw. Maybe if you find AI to be doing stuff you find impressive, the stuff you were doing wasn't that impressive? Worth ruminating on your priors at least.

What makes you think either the tweet or blog post are AI generated?

Re: A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

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Post by huijzer »

alsetmusic wrote: post #42
NotOscarWilde wrote: post #11

As a TCS assistant professor from Eastern Europe, I always am a little jealous of the biggest names in math having such an easy access to the expensive, long thinking models. Paying for Pro from any of my current academic budgets is completely ouf of the field of reality here -- all budgets tend to have restricted uses and software payments fit into very few categories. Effectively, I'd have to ask for a brand new gr…

It’s a classic example of the best positioned people being in the best position to keep reaping all the rewards. There’s the example of a poor person and a rich person buying boots. The poor person’s boots wear out and have to be replaced while the rich persons boots last for many years due to higher quality craftsmanship. Over years, the poor person’s boots wear will pay may for boots.

I know the example, but as a counter-argument: often more expensive boots are not more durable. It’s about spending time to learn to spot the quality.

Of course if you are really poor, then you have to take expensive shortcuts, but for most people that shouldn’t be the case. Learning to do more with less money isn’t as bad as many people think. It’s also good for the brain to be a bit more creative.

Re: A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

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Post by pmontra »

bel8 wrote: post #41
bananaflag wrote: post #10

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Now repeat that for every sort of human achievement

Machines are comming even after table tennis :( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVEzgYxDdrc

Sports are safe. Machines came after runners (motogp, formula 1) and yet we cheer the winners of the 100 m at the Olympics Games. Fully autonomous bikes and cars won't change that. AIs destroy chess players. We still cheer the world champion.

We care about sports with humans.

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