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The Math Legend Who Just Left Academia–For an AI Startup Run by a 24-Year-Old

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Re: The Math Legend Who Just Left Academia–For an AI Startup Run by a 24-Year-Old

#31

It’s almost like tech world pays more and has less bullshit than academia

> pays more Definitely > has less bullshit Is there a Theranos equivalent in the world of math research? I'd argue "very different flavor of bullshit", but not necessarily less of it.

It's almost as if assembling people with different viewpoints and competing incentives produces "organizational challenges."

Re: The Math Legend Who Just Left Academia–For an AI Startup Run by a 24-Year-Old

#32

I have no idea what he's planning to do, but this kind of thing just now becoming feasible. I get the impression doing something like the title is a dream of many Chinese AI researchers, and why we [edit:see] them focusing on things like the mathematics competition datasets. I am slightly in this direction myself.

I could review his published research, but in the interim, I had GPT painstakingly review the math in the image, and extrapolate the direction, which it considered to be a suggested hybrid successor to the Transformer for structured and scientific domains: https://chatgpt.com/share/6931c915-88c8-8012-9ca4-b0097e53e8...

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Re: The Math Legend Who Just Left Academia–For an AI Startup Run by a 24-Year-Old

#33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I could review his published research, but in the interim, I had GPT painstakingly review the math in the image, and extrapolate the direction, which it considered to be a suggested hybrid successor to the Transformer for structured and scientific domains: https://chatgpt.com/share/6931c915-88c8-8012-9ca4-b0097e53e8...

I don't think that's correct.

You're not in any position to judge since you previously admitted having no idea.

Re: The Math Legend Who Just Left Academia–For an AI Startup Run by a 24-Year-Old

#34

I have no idea what he's planning to do, but this kind of thing just now becoming feasible. I get the impression doing something like the title is a dream of many Chinese AI researchers, and why we [edit:see] them focusing on things like the mathematics competition datasets. I am slightly in this direction myself.

I could review his published research, but in the interim, I had GPT painstakingly review the math in the image, and extrapolate the direction, which it considered to be a suggested hybrid successor to the Transformer for structured and scientific domains: https://chatgpt.com/share/6931c915-88c8-8012-9ca4-b0097e53e8...

Yeah, that’s not right. I’m not sure about painstakingly… it said it couldn’t make out the notation, and spat out what it thought it could read, and you never checked it - nor read the articles for context, just assumed it was to do directly with further AI work.

It picked up on the polynomial, then what it thought was a scheme/sheaf being defined is actually the finite field with six elements. It also misread “Thue” as “the”.

If you had corrected what it read from the board, then gave it the context that he was a number theorist now working for a company trying to get AI to work through proofs, then you may have got the correct answer that this appears to be them crafting problems on polynomial reduction to test how the LLM reasons about proof.

Re: The Math Legend Who Just Left Academia–For an AI Startup Run by a 24-Year-Old

#35

It’s almost like tech world pays more and has less bullshit than academia

> pays more Definitely > has less bullshit Is there a Theranos equivalent in the world of math research? I'd argue "very different flavor of bullshit", but not necessarily less of it.

Plenty of Theranos level academia fraud in physics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6n_scandal

Re: The Math Legend Who Just Left Academia–For an AI Startup Run by a 24-Year-Old

#36
post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I could review his published research, but in the interim, I had GPT painstakingly review the math in the image, and extrapolate the direction, which it considered to be a suggested hybrid successor to the Transformer for structured and scientific domains: https://chatgpt.com/share/6931c915-88c8-8012-9ca4-b0097e53e8...

Yeah, that’s not right. I’m not sure about painstakingly… it said it couldn’t make out the notation, and spat out what it thought it could read, and you never checked it - nor read the articles for context, just assumed it was to do directly with further AI work. It picked up on the polynomial, then what it thought was a scheme/sheaf being defined is actually the finite field with six elements. It also misread “Thue”…

M&Ms much? There is no finite field with six elements.

Re: The Math Legend Who Just Left Academia–For an AI Startup Run by a 24-Year-Old

#37
post #30

did anyone else open the article and get the feeling he was leaving academia for a different reason.

You should read the credentials of Hong--hen is extraordinary

(I'm using the swedish gender-neutral pronoun because, although gender matters for your comment, the impressiveness of the credentials don't)

Re: The Math Legend Who Just Left Academia–For an AI Startup Run by a 24-Year-Old

#38
post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I could review his published research, but in the interim, I had GPT painstakingly review the math in the image, and extrapolate the direction, which it considered to be a suggested hybrid successor to the Transformer for structured and scientific domains: https://chatgpt.com/share/6931c915-88c8-8012-9ca4-b0097e53e8...

Yeah, that’s not right. I’m not sure about painstakingly… it said it couldn’t make out the notation, and spat out what it thought it could read, and you never checked it - nor read the articles for context, just assumed it was to do directly with further AI work. It picked up on the polynomial, then what it thought was a scheme/sheaf being defined is actually the finite field with six elements. It also misread “Thue”…

> If you had corrected what it read from the board, then gave it the context that he was a number theorist now working for a company trying to get AI to work through proofs

It was just a quick and dirty chat. A proper evaluation will consider his published research to date.

Re: The Math Legend Who Just Left Academia–For an AI Startup Run by a 24-Year-Old

#40
post #12

For anyone else who can't see the article: > University of Virginia professor Ken Ono, one of the world's most prominent mathematicians, joins AI startup Axiom Math, which is building an “AI mathematician”

Gift article: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/math-ken-ono-carina-hong-axiom-s...

May I ask how you did this?
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