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> Keep in mind that 1 (or less than 5) expert human mathematician (Grigori Perelman) out of 8 billion humans managed to solve 1 of the seven millennium prize pr
by mdspan 17d ago
> Keep in mind that 1 (or less than 5) expert human mathematician (Grigori Perelman) out of 8 billion humans managed to solve 1 of the seven millennium prize problems which was the Poincaré conjecture.
8 billion is the wrong number to use in the denominator, since not every single person on Earth was actively trying to make progress in Navier-Stokes. Equivalently, we could say "1 out of every 5 billion AI prompts managed to solve 1 of the seven millennium prize problems".
- rvz 17d ago> Equivalently, we could say "1 out of every 5 billion AI prompts managed to solve 1 of the seven millennium prize problems". Why did you choose exactly "5 billion" when we both know it is far higher than that? [0] OpenAI worked on the problem since September 1st until the 5th, around 4 days so that would still be around 1 - 4.9 million prompts out 8 billion total prompts every 4 days. [0] https://www.theverge.com/news/710867/openai-chatgpt-daily-prompts-2-billion https://www.theverge.com/news/710867/openai-chatgpt-daily-pr...