I should really know better than to say something like that for a figure as revered as Terry Tao, but, he has taken OpenAI's money to shoot an advert for them [1] and, sorry but I can't believe he is entirely unbiased; or very unbiased for that.

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[1] https://youtu.be/cdflu9ZXZGE?si=f1xi65r7kZM8s1JI

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pfortuny 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I do not know about this but, to be honest, he (or his Dpt, or whatever) has the money and connections to try the hidden-behind-closed-doors stuff.

We mere mortals (I am a prof. of Maths at Uni) do not.

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fn-mote 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I won’t downvote this thread but … the first paragraph of the article explains how Tao won some $3m award. Unless the going rate for AI-shilling is much higher than I can believe, the amount of money just is not going to be enough to get a world-class figure to suddenly sell out. If you saw him selling his morals regularly in the past, ok I’ll listen to the evidence. But suddenly now? After so long writing (essentially for free) and building community? Doesn’t make sense.

	▲	nilkn 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I don't think Terence Tao sold out. However, just looking at it from OpenAI's perspective, this kind of advertising is almost certainly worth at least one order of magnitude more than $3M to the company.
	▲	fragmede 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		A $100,000 investment into Anthropic or OpenAI a few years ago would be worth a couple hundred million today, so $3m is ~nothing in that scheme of things.

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simianwords 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"Tao has sold out to the AI grifters to prop up the AI hype bubble" is not a take I expected to see.

I think we can all be a bit grounded and understand reality as we see it -- one of the smartest living mathematicians is using an important invention. Not necessary to believe in any conspiracy theory.

	▲	keybored 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		We don’t even need to know addition to understand quid pro quo. (edit Okay we may have to understand both plus and minus here. But that’s it.)
	▲	UcatnapnSula an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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