Posted by tedsanders 9 hours ago
Why would anyone believe this to be true even for a split second?
The point of having an AI solve an unsolved problem, is to make it very clear that the insight must have come from the AI and wasn't in the training data. Sure, it's possible OpenAI had access to some math professors that solved it and then let an AI model take the credit... but seems unlikely. That human would be turning down a potential Fields Medal for this discovery.
The abridged chain-of-thought from the model also serves as some evidence of LLM origin: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/1625eff6-5ac1-40d8-b1db-5d5cf925d... (could be fake, though I'm unsure what proof of LLM origin couldn't be faked)
can we please put these ground breaking AIs to work on actual problems humans have?
What was discovered were numerous mistakes in the published literature on the subject. “New math! AI!” No, just mechanical application of rules, human mistakes.
There were things that were theorized, but couldn’t be exhaustively checked until computers were bigger.
Once again, a tool is applied, it has the AI label - its progress! But it isn’t something new. It’s just an LLM.
There’s a consistent under appreciation of AI (and math, honestly), but watching soulless AI mongers declare that their toy has created the new is something of a new low; uninspired, failed creatives, without rhyme or context; this is a bigger version of declaring that your spell checker has created new words.
The result is more impressive than what was done with tables of integrals and SAINT in 1961, sure.
Apparently if you add a “temperature” knob to a text predictor, otherwise sane individuals piss themselves and call it new.
Then again I thought NFTs, crypto, and the Metaverse were stupid, so what do I know.