A misalignment of AI in mathematics
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#3Puts the onus on the AI companies to provide a specific replacement mechanism, no? Unless I'm unfamiliar with something else he's written that proposes something more specific and constructive
To Tao’s credit he obviously identified the problem very clearly and admits understandably "we did not have the time to have a more consultative process, as with Leiden; but we decided that the urgency of the situation was such that we needed to release a statement sooner rather than later".
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#5> solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight.
This is the effect of AI on most intellectual disciplines, and it’s a real worry.
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#6> I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below
I wonder if there’s a Fields Medalist group chat.
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#7Seems more like a misalignment b/w the people practicing mathematics and the people ultimately footing the bill for their work.
Governments are invested in solving mathematical problems for practical purposes. Up to now, achieving these practical purposes relied on mathematicians doing their mathematician thing, which is better defined as a social activity than the achievement of a practical result. Now, governments can achieve similar practical results w/o the need of the social activity.
I don't believe it to be productive to think of the problem wrt AI or AI-company alignment. These conflicts always existed, but they were easy enough to paper over and believe in heavily subsidized fictions that folks in government ever cared about things that mathematicians cared about.
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#8The average programmer is outraged by OpenAI's methods, too.
I don't care how good Astra or any subsequent models they may release might be... I am never going back to those token reset shenanigans.
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#9There is a contradiction here, among many:
1. it is hard to justify 20 years of education at this point,
2. with no such people around, who will guide those (supposedly) supersmart machines?
A. Ronacher (who builds harnesses for a living) complained today that he has no idea what Astra is doing. Imagine a bunch of slop kiddies facing an aging AI-generated codebase. Not to mention the maths.
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