Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

Post by Chance-Device » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 8:37 PM UTC

nevertoolate wrote: post #502

Chance-Device wrote: post #269

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I understand your sentiment, but I think this really is something different. This isn’t a craft going away, or even an industry being replaced, it’s potentially everything we do. It’s the ground being pulled away beneath people’s feet, everyone, everywhere all at once. I think the vacuum it leaves in people’s lives needs to be filled with something, and I haven’t heard any good ideas about this or how the transition…

There is a glaring fallacy in your “AI will change everything as it is super intelligent” hypothesis. If it is so great thinker which can do everything why not just solve this social impact thingie? Or maybe it is not so capable?

Post by gste » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 8:38 PM UTC

Chance-Device wrote: post #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.

Post by zardo » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 8:43 PM UTC

zogomoox wrote: post #288

macleginn wrote: post #194

I am duly impressed by the powerl of the nameless internal AI, but not a single human contributor's name listed anywhere? Did someone at least make this model a coffee?

surely some human regularly typed "think deeper, make no mistakes".

Post by Chance-Device » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 8:44 PM UTC

fhfncjcc wrote: post #499

Chance-Device wrote: post #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.

The models are frequently getting worse at items that they aren’t being benchmarked for — and that’s happening more and more over time! Other people in other fields aren’t idiots, they are accurately perceiving the fact that these models are being hyper optimized for our industry, and are becoming less capable in other domains over time. Models of the same scale are massively worse at writing a broad variety of style…

Post by Marha01 » Mon, Aug 03, 2026, 8:45 PM UTC

alightsoul wrote: post #513

Legend2440 wrote: post #504

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Proof? In my experience modern models are better at all tasks than models from two years ago, especially complex multi-step tasks.

you are working on coding. they are working on things like "creative writing" remember that gpt 4o was popular among those who had ai as a romantic partnet?