qnleigh

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by qnleigh 12d ago
You realize this is a guest post, right? Terrence Tao didn't write it. He's been using his blog to facilitate discussions about math's future.
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by qnleigh 12d ago
I'm frustrated by articles like this that categorically dismiss the risks of AI in security. If you don't trust OpenAI's and Anthropic's motives, that's fine, you probably shouldn't. But don't tell me that
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by qnleigh 20d ago
It's possible that they didn't notice.
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by qnleigh 20d ago
Waitwaitwait multiple millennium problems? What was the other one??? Increasing a bound on the fraction of Reimann zeros on the critical line doesn't count; even Anthropic says they don't think this line of work will lead to a s
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by qnleigh 21d ago
> OpenAI / Anthropic models have largely stopped advancing I'm shocked anyone could conclude this. This year it became common for people to entirely delegate coding to AI (I know many competent programmers/researchers who
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by qnleigh 22d ago
That was interesting. Highlights for me: > The Chorleywood bread process allows the use of lower-protein wheats and reduces processing time,[5] the system being able to produce a loaf of bread from flour to sliced and packaged form in ab
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by qnleigh 24d ago
He doesn't seem to be after the prize himself. In this statement he credits the approach of another two researchers: > I believe Luis Mart´ınez-Zoroa deserves a Fields Medal.
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by qnleigh 25d ago
> It was also said that if OpenAI posted after us, they would say that we deserved the Clay Prize, and that we were the “closest humans to the problem”. I declined both offers. I said that if OpenAI released its result in the way propose
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by qnleigh 28d ago
I wonder what he's feeling about this. Formalizing Fermat's last theorem was a huge undertaking, and has been a big part of his career for some time. Now the announcement has been made, and even if there is more work that he wants
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by qnleigh 1mo ago
> "Lena" presents a lush, capitalist ideal where you are a business, and all of the humanity of your workforce is abstracted away behind an API. Your people, your "employees" or "contractors" or "partne
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by qnleigh 1mo ago
Some of you might have read the short story Lena by qntm [0], which is about brain uploading and the effective enslavement of the uploaded once their humanity is hidden behind an API. That story is actually about the gig economy [1]. Of cou
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by qnleigh 2mo ago
This is no excuse. Prioritizing new features so far above reliability is exactly what makes most Microsoft products infuriating to use.
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by qnleigh 2mo ago
Learning is an unproductive use of your time??? No one knows how LLMs will change things, but that sounds like terrible advice.
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by qnleigh 2mo ago
> Another one is having the LLM quiz you on your topics of interest This is a great idea. I'm going to try it.
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by qnleigh 2mo ago
Well everyone needs some downtime, and then I think it's important to acknowledge that there is a range of quality within the category of "educational entertainment." You can learn a lot of interesting things from 3BlueOneBro
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by qnleigh 2mo ago
100% agree. They are not good teachers. Nevertheless I've been using LLMs more and more to learn complex topics, but my learning is always anchored in something else: - Getting through textbooks and lecture notes. LLMs have gotten very
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by qnleigh 2mo ago
What you say would make sense if phages designed from scratch with generative AI were the only solution to antibiotic resistance. That's obviously not the case.
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by qnleigh 2mo ago
This specific study sounds relatively benign, but generative models for DNA sequences sounds like an incredibly dangerous technology to develop. If someone were to reproduce their study while including animal viruses in the training data, w
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by qnleigh 2mo ago
Found some discussion here [1] from someone who actually worked on a few of these problems. [1] https://x.com/henryquantum/status/2083623695436623915?s=20
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by qnleigh 2mo ago
Can anyone comment on the significance of any of these results for their respective fields? Or what impact they might have? Presumably none are quite at the level of the Jacobian conjecture, but some of the results on group theory and spher
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by qnleigh 2mo ago
Wow, I know what my next nightmare will be about.
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by qnleigh 2mo ago
I'm not talking about what the AI labs are saying and it. I don't know what they have been saying and I don't care. I care whether LLMs a few generations from now will be about to bring these dangerous capabilities to the mas
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by qnleigh 2mo ago
So many commenters are asserting this but no one is giving an argument or references. Cults have been able to make sarin. The DNA sequence for smallpox is pubicly available. Where are you getting your confidence that LLM-assisted bioweapons
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by qnleigh 2mo ago
If you are optimistic about this given your expertise, I am very glad to hear it. As someone scientific but with little background in biology, I've been concerned about the bioweapons angle for a long time (and not because AI companies
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by qnleigh 2mo ago
I'm dismayed that I had to scroll past so many cynical cheap shots to find a comment that actually addresses the core point. I have yet to hear a single compelling plan for how we will prevent bioweapon development or massive hacking c
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by qnleigh 3mo ago
I have absolutely no problem with people disliking or fearing AI. It's energy consumption, effects on education and potential for displacing good jobs are all quite disturbing. But "stochastic parrot" means that "all it
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by qnleigh 3mo ago
I won't touch creativity, but if this and other results like it do not demonstrate intelligence, what does? How was it able to solve problems that specialist mathematicians have tried and failed to solve for years?
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by qnleigh 3mo ago
These are funny the first time you see them, but I guarantee if you watch a few you will start picking up how similar they all are and it will all start to feel like slop.
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by qnleigh 3mo ago
I would love to see an example of this! Can you link anything?
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by qnleigh 3mo ago
Art is kind of unique though, because it inherits a lot of it's value from scarcity, both of the art itself and of the rare talent that can make quality art. If an artistic style or product becomes too common, it tends to lose its lust

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