AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them
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AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them
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#2Metacommentary: how did this post get to #5 on the front page with 1 upvote within 2 minutes of submission?
Re: AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them
#3It is obvious that super intelligence comes from more working memory.
It is the scary thing actually. Cause once AI makes arguments that require a working memory of hundred items, then we as humans will have no way of understanding the arguments…
We can decompose and write things but only up to a point. when Ai can have a working memory that spans hundreds of books, we are necessarily going to have to trust the system.
Re: AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them
#4Metacommentary: how did this post get to #5 on the front page with 1 upvote within 2 minutes of submission?
How fast the upvote happened?
Re: AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them
#5Does it matter? It's going to produce proofs far more intricate than humans can understand, outdoing humans and opening new frontiers.
The age of humans comprehending things is coming to an end: our brains just won't have the capacity to make meaningful contributions to science, math, or technology.
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#6"It's not X, it's Y" hot take AI slop.
Re: AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them
#7It is obvious that super intelligence comes from more working memory. It is the scary thing actually. Cause once AI makes arguments that require a working memory of hundred items, then we as humans will have no way of understanding the arguments… We can decompose and write things but only up to a point. when Ai can have a working memory that spans hundreds of books, we are necessarily going to have to trust the syste…
We offload working memory to paper if we want to understand something that does not fit into the regular meat bits.
Re: AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them
#8Does it matter? It's going to produce proofs far more intricate than humans can understand, outdoing humans and opening new frontiers. The age of humans comprehending things is coming to an end: our brains just won't have the capacity to make meaningful contributions to science, math, or technology.
But apparently we can teach machines to do it for us
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#9It's also "out-brute forcing them." It just never gets tired. If a mathematician picks a research direction and spends a whole week on it and it doesn't pan out, they will likely be annoyed, need a break for a while, etc. This thing just does not ever get tired or discouraged or care; it's just onto the next thing until something ends up working.
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#10Outside of math you can basically take the entire corpus of research papers on any topic and have the AI read all of it and provide an analysis cross referencing everything all at once. This applies to everyone and everything.