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Re: Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

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post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Read the prompts in the PDF I link and see if your analogy makes sense in this context :)

Prompt quality should not matter. If a high-schooler operates the crane to lift a ton of weight 10 floors high, should the credit entirely go to the crane?

When I type 56789*23456 into my calculator and get the result I don't claim to have solved the problem, the calculator did it.

Re: Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

#102
post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, have there been examples of researchers not affiliated with OpenAI (or another LLM creator), who have done something similar? Another question I have is whether or not OpenAI 'simply' hired capable combinatorics researchers to work on problems, and they have, and the use of the model is incidental / secondary to their work.

> Also, have there been examples of researchers not affiliated with OpenAI (or another LLM creator), who have done something similar? A couple small ones that I've seen (example here [0]), but not anything of the magnitude that OpenAI and Anthropic have put out. Likely just related to token limits. > Another question I have is whether or not OpenAI 'simply' hired capable combinatorics researchers to work on problems,…

Why you think that?

Re: Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

#103

Wow, so this is the end of science :(

It's just another tool that can help solve problems. It doesn't know _what_ problems to solve. It turns out that a lot of old problems are now low hanging fruit for these new models. In terms of 'expanding the frontier', we've just discovered dynamite and can now blast our way through mountains. The bottom of the ocean or space are still as hard to reach as ever.

Re: Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

#105
Pretty cool. The impact of AI is getting undeniable, there aren’t many positions left to move the goalposts to at this stage, next they’ll have to be outside the stadium entirely.

The sooner people can be broken out of their denial about all this the better, and we can start actually taking it seriously.

Re: Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

#106

In a way the most remarkable thing about this is that it isn't even at the top of the HN homepage. Even if this is a step up from what we've seen before, we're no longer astonished by the idea that AI can make significant advances in mathematics and computer science.

This is not at the top as it is actively flagged by people that can't psychologically cope with the advances of AI. Hacker News is no longer a web site of an elite.

Interesting. I had no idea that a person could see what is flagged?

Re: Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

#107

In a way the most remarkable thing about this is that it isn't even at the top of the HN homepage. Even if this is a step up from what we've seen before, we're no longer astonished by the idea that AI can make significant advances in mathematics and computer science.

This is not at the top as it is actively flagged by people that can't psychologically cope with the advances of AI. Hacker News is no longer a web site of an elite.

Didn't know I was part of an elite.

Re: Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

#108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not at the top as it is actively flagged by people that can't psychologically cope with the advances of AI. Hacker News is no longer a web site of an elite.

Interesting. I had no idea that a person could see what is flagged?

If you page through the /newest listings you can see [flagged] and [flagged][dead] submissions.

eg. this: [flagged] A migrant surge tests Spain's open policies (economist.com) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131860

is clearly marked as flagged.

Unlike the current submission: Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (openai.com) which isn't [flagged].

* https://news.ycombinator.com/newest

Re: Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

#110
post #6

My main gripe here is the lack of transparency around the total experiment and construction. I doubt that they simply pointed their model at these ten specific problems alone and gave the model one shot; therefore the $2000 number could be completely misleading, similar to P-value hacking by not disclosing the total experimental setup. I want to know: 1. How many total problems were given to the model, and what perce…

I don't think you want to bring cost into this argument. Even if the cost was $1 mil for these 10 problems, that's maybe 10-20 math researchers for a year. Do you really think that if you paid that to humans, they will deliver the same results?

Grad students on zero pay solve problems like this everyday. What exactly is your point here?
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