Crazy how intelligence is cheap, efficient and commonplace now. We humans better refocusing our energy on our core values/principles, given most of our skills are becoming irrelevant
Once we figure out the pesky problem of how we're going to pay for housing, food, and healthcare.
GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
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Re: GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
#32Crazy how intelligence is cheap, efficient and commonplace now. We humans better refocusing our energy on our core values/principles, given most of our skills are becoming irrelevant
They will, however, get there as well either directly or as interfaces to models that do, and your core point stands.
Re: GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
#33Re: GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
#34Crazy how intelligence is cheap, efficient and commonplace now. We humans better refocusing our energy on our core values/principles, given most of our skills are becoming irrelevant
AI hasn’t even taken the class of jobs associated with customer service lmao
Re: GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
You’re at least 18 months out of date claiming that prompting will be the new hot skill. Turns out LLMs are also good at prompting other LLMs.
That doesn't make any sense; you can't have one LLM to read your mind to prompt another LLM.
There are two ways to solve a problem. Either solve the problem, or deem it irrelevant.
The implication here is that, you, the human operator, clearly are just confused. The LLM knows best. You're just a stupid human. The LLM knows objective truth, you do not. You have concerns, questions, the LLM didn't understand your question "properly"? Do not worry, the LLM objectively knows the optimal course of action. It thought through the implications of what you said, took into account all possible data, and came to the objectively correct design for your software, your society, your life.
In some sense, this problem would have been a societal problem within the next several decades anyways, but it's been hyper-accelerated by AI.
Re: GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
#36Crazy how intelligence is cheap, efficient and commonplace now. We humans better refocusing our energy on our core values/principles, given most of our skills are becoming irrelevant
Oh brother AI hasn’t even taken the class of jobs associated with customer service lmao
Re: GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Once we figure out the pesky problem of how we're going to pay for housing, food, and healthcare.
I can't stop wondering myself.... I'm writing some software with AI and wondering, why am I doing this? Will anyone need this? Will anyone have money to buy this? Best I've come up with is we'll need to be adopted by technofeudlaist overlords to be our patrons like in the roman days
Re: GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
#38Crazy how intelligence is cheap, efficient and commonplace now. We humans better refocusing our energy on our core values/principles, given most of our skills are becoming irrelevant
Overall, this is an impressive proof of capability. But I wouldn't take that proof as anything more than what it is.
Re: GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
#39Waiting for comments saying that LLMs can't produce anything new and general goalpost moving.
Oh wait, sorry, I do know why you're getting downvoted. Fear.
Re: GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
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> I'm starting to feel like there's no place left for programmers like me who focus on quickly churning out MVPs. Of course there is. The same way this was only possible as a result from the professor who prompted it with his specialized 10 page prompt and most importantly his deep knowledge of the problem space, the muscle memory and intuition you've built over the years is what will allow you to get more out of any…
So these days I've been writing down my thoughts on my personal homepage. Things I've learned, my background knowledge, and so on. I've been realizing that there are more books tied to my background knowledge than I expected, but I'm not sure what will happen as AI advances further. These days, I'm living for the fun of building my own personal wiki on my homepage