The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
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The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
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Re: The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
#2> My two favourite hypothetical questions regarding this used to be:
> If I'm running Codex and one of my API keys accidentally gets consumed in the context, what are the chances that someone else might ask for an API key in the future and get mine back? (I asked someone at OpenAI once and they called this the "regurgitation" problem and assured me that they take great pains to prevent that... but wouldn't describe how.)
> If I brainstorm with ChatGPT about potential new directions for my company, what's the chance that information might be exposed to a competitor in six months' time who asks "what might company X plan to do next"?
> My new preferred hypothetical for this is:
> If I use ChatGPT to help me partially solve a Millennium Prize problem, what are the chances that my work will influence training such that a later model helps someone else solve it first?
Re: The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
#3What's missing from the story I think is the part about "...then had a breakthrough on August 15th. The mathematical rumour mill kicked into gear...". If only the two of them were working on the problem in secret, how did their breakthrough become a rumor?
Re: The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
#4What's missing from the story I think is the part about "...then had a breakthrough on August 15th. The mathematical rumour mill kicked into gear...". If only the two of them were working on the problem in secret, how did their breakthrough become a rumor?
They weren't working in secret?
Re: The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
#5Basically no new info here, not really sure why this post needed to be written tbh.
Re: The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
#6Basically no new info here, not really sure why this post needed to be written tbh.
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Re: The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
#7Yeah, this was pretty shitty by OpenAI. Not surprising, sadly.
Them being assholes, trying to exclude an author just because he worked at Anthropic, shows the kind of culture within (that part of) their organization. The focus wasn't on supporting academics or expanding research. It was on getting great marketing.
If they had to burn millions of dollars solving a problem _that they thought was already being solved_ to do so, they'd do it.
Re: The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
#8What's missing from the story I think is the part about "...then had a breakthrough on August 15th. The mathematical rumour mill kicked into gear...". If only the two of them were working on the problem in secret, how did their breakthrough become a rumor?
People talk. If you have a breakthrough solving one of the most famous problems outstanding, you're going to tell people.
You'll say, "Don't tell anyone", which they will ignore because they get a rush and perceived status by sharing it. So then they tell someone, along with "Don't tell anyone", etc.
It's a small enough world (both in academic math, one at Anthropic) that you get to OAI in very few hops.
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Re: The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
#10Basically no new info here, not really sure why this post needed to be written tbh.
Yes, you have ability to get information very quickly, but not everyone does.