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How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

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Re: How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

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They are desperately rushing to IPO before the bubble bursts.

AI just solved a millennium prize problem. In a matter of days. Because of a rumor that someone else solved the same problem with AI. What exactly would AI have to do in order to not be called a bubble?

If non AI companies, in particular non tech companies start making unprecedented amounts of profit, inflation adjusted I will concede.

That being said I think LLMs are impressive, still.

Re: How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

#42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are desperately rushing to IPO before the bubble bursts.

AI just solved a millennium prize problem. In a matter of days. Because of a rumor that someone else solved the same problem with AI. What exactly would AI have to do in order to not be called a bubble?

Per Anthropic's prospectus: generate $30T (~94% of 2026 US nominal GDP) in revenue.

Re: How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

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Some body compared AI as something like a big boulder rolling down a mountain, decimating anything that lies in its path. After giving it a bit of thought, I feel that what humanity is doing with LLM is exactly that. The problem is not that it is super smart. It is that it is super dumb and super powerful. Like a boulder falling down. Humanity is like this bunch of utter morons who has rolled a big boulder up a big m…

Let's go back to caves, this whole "civilisation" thing is not working out.

Is reductio ad absurdum the only argument pro AI crowd can come up with?

Like, why not stick to those products of civilization that don't actively try to replace humans who just so happen to comprise this very civilization?

Re: How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

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post #9

Some body compared AI as something like a big boulder rolling down a mountain, decimating anything that lies in its path. After giving it a bit of thought, I feel that what humanity is doing with LLM is exactly that. The problem is not that it is super smart. It is that it is super dumb and super powerful. Like a boulder falling down. Humanity is like this bunch of utter morons who has rolled a big boulder up a big m…

Let's go back to caves, this whole "civilisation" thing is not working out.

It seems that humanity would have went on a lot longer if we never left the caves, so you might have a point there.

Re: How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

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Relevant paper [0] "Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog" [0]: https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf

My C64 is going to absolutely smash this and my dog (Darby) is a frequent barker too! I'll vibe up an abacus emulator as a PWA.

Re: How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

#47

I'd imagine that OpenAI would try to stagger their announcements, rather than publishing them recently close to each other. Is this because their previous post (about navier stokes problem) was met with controversy?

I genuinely think that AI has accelerated so many different things that announcements from all companies will be incredibly common and fast. In my own company, the last 2 months, I feel like we've made more feature announcements to our internal staff than they can handle. AI has genuinely made us that much faster. In the past, making one of these announcements every month and the company celebrated. Now we're making…

> I feel like we've made more feature announcements to our internal staff than they can handle.

And your solution to staff being unable to handle the number of feature announcements be like..?

Re: How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

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I genuinely think that AI has accelerated so many different things that announcements from all companies will be incredibly common and fast. In my own company, the last 2 months, I feel like we've made more feature announcements to our internal staff than they can handle. AI has genuinely made us that much faster. In the past, making one of these announcements every month and the company celebrated. Now we're making…

> more feature announcements to our internal staff than they can handle have you considered the consequences of that or are you still drunk and thinking that this is a good thing?

They solved the code, now they're gonna solve the people away.
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