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> despite the absurd fantasies of LLM fans Absurd fantasies like solving a Millennium Prize Problem? How is this not prima facie absurd? And if that's come to
by achierius 16d ago
> despite the absurd fantasies of LLM fans
Absurd fantasies like solving a Millennium Prize Problem? How is this not prima facie absurd? And if that's come to pass, why should we believe your bar for anything else?
- grey-area 16d agoYes absurd fantasies like it did that without human help and guidance. OpenAI found out there was a solution and humans attempted to brute force generating all possible solutions while threatening the mathematicians involved (generous interpretation), or stole some ideas and took shortcuts to know where to look and brute forced it so they could claim credit. Neither looks good for OpenAI or those who support them.
- achierius 7d agoAnd yet they solved it. You don't think mathematicians have been trying to brute force a counterexample for decades now? Only with AI did it actually work. Even the researchers that got scooped were using AI to drive the work -- not a dig at them, they were certainly wronged here, but just to point out that AI was essential in this. Yes there was human involvement. But that does ~nothing to change the fact that this is an incredible leap forward, and one that should be viewed with deep concern.