Even under your interpretation, OAI pushed a button and solved NS. Yes, that is very impressive. Are you kidding me? Imagine building an automated system that can solve NS.

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HarHarVeryFunny 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's not my interpretation - that is literally what OpenAI say in that press release.

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cman1444 31 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Even if true, I don't see why this is an issue. Are they not allowed to work on problems others are working on? Did Anthropic get first dibs on this problem? Competition is good. And I don't exactly have tons of sympathy when the other side is just a leading AI lab. It's not like it's some scholar who dedicated his life to this problem.

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sobellian 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The "steal their thunder" is interpretation. What I'm saying is that you believe they solved NS on a lark to bully some other researchers, and that this is not impressive?

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HarHarVeryFunny 4 hours ago | parent [-]

What's impressive for a human and for an AI are two different things.

Magnus Carlson had a peak ELO rating of almost 2900.

Would you be impressed with someone with an ELO of 3700?

Would you still be impressed if I told you it was Stockfish?

OpenAI didn't go looking for a tough-for-an-AI problem to solve - they went looking for one that looked like it was easy since it they had heard it had already been solved.

Do you find this impressive?

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sobellian 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, Stockfish is genuinely impressive. I would be proud to author Stockfish. You don't think so?

	▲	HarHarVeryFunny 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		As a developer yes, especially given that it runs on a PC, and DeepBlue in it's day was really more impressive since is used custom ASICs. But, I assume the Stockfish developers aren't comparing themselves to Magnus. Let's see if OpenAI, or someone else, can get these sort of physics/math results out of a desktop PC - that would also be an impressive piece of engineering!

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machina_ex_deus 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Possibly after being given the significant part of the solution from actual human researchers. Which they then bullied. And they beat them to the finish line only because they heard rumor and threw everything at the problem. It doesn't look good for openAI in any way. I see more reasons to avoid using them rather than use them from this story.