| ▲ | jacobgold 2 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||
> If someone unskilled at math brings a calculator to an international math competition, they will not succeed at solving many problems. > But if they bring a frontier LLM (and succeed at concealing it from the organizers), they can walk away with a gold medal. Of course you could win all kinds of math competitions with a concealed calculator. Maybe you'd need a fancy one, like a little SBC running Python. Anything complex and timed would be easy to win. You'd look like a genius to anyone who didn't know you had it. > Such a feat requires intelligence... and if the contestant didn't provide the intelligence himself/herself, where'd it come from? From computer software running on computer hardware, just like a calculator. Calculating trillions of digits of pi also requires intelligence far beyond human capacity. Computers displaying intelligence doesn't imply human-like intelligence. This is the source of confusion. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | scarmig 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
The idea that a calculator, or a calculator with Python, or even a calculator with a proof assistant (and every book ever written on math) would help a random person at e.g. IMO or Putnam is fairly revealing. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | CamperBob2 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
Of course you could win all kinds of math competitions with a concealed calculator. Maybe you'd need a fancy one, like a little SBC running Python. My mistake. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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