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No, that sort of thing has been said about math competitions for a long time. It's not a new argument put forward as something against AI. An analogy with soft
by mb7733 3y ago
No, that sort of thing has been said about math competitions for a long time. It's not a new argument put forward as something against AI.
An analogy with software is that math competitions are like (very hard) leetcode.
There was an article posted on HN recently that is related: https://benexdict.io/p/math-team https://benexdict.io/p/math-team
- esafak 3y agoWhat is the argument; that math competitions are easy for computers but hard for humans?
- nitwit005 3y agoIt's a quote from the article. The argument is naturally there.
- silveraxe93 3y agoThe usual argument is: We test developer skill by giving them leetcode problems, but leetcode while requiring programming skill is nothing like a real programmer's job.
- mb7733 3y agoLike I said, it's got nothing to do with computers or AI. This point of view predates any kind of AI that would be capable of doing either. The analogy is as follows. Like with with leetcode & job interviews is as follows, to excel at math competitions one must grind problems and learn tricks, in order to quickly solve problems in a high pressure environment. And, just like how solving leetcode problems is pretty different than what a typical computer scientist or software engineer does, doing math competitions is pretty different than what a typical mathematician does.