| ▲ | sherburt3 6 hours ago |
| "Breakthrough" to me would be like Isaac Newton inventing calculus to calculate pi. This feels more like $12MM in tokens was spent to add another digit to pi using the old way. |
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| ▲ | Kotlopou 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Inventing calculus to calculate pi? I don't think that ever happened... |
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| ▲ | pickleRick243 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I'm not sure if you meant it this way, but this is more an insult directed at mathematics, not openAI. |
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| ▲ | sherburt3 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | That would be an incorrect interpretation | | |
| ▲ | pickleRick243 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I thought as much- my point is that as AI capabilities continue to expand, AI skeptics inadvertently and ironically end up belittling the humans they presumably hold in high esteem vs. the "cold machines" that aren't capable of true thought or creativity. When one says that solving a Millennium prize problem is not impressive, one is essentially demeaning practically all mathematicians and the field of mathematics itself. | | |
| ▲ | sherburt3 5 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I mean I would never thumb my nose at a human doing mathematics, because in the process the human is getting better at math and there’s a chance a they’ll have some crazy insight that will move the field forward. As far as I can tell AI is incapable of doing that, and God help us if it is. |
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| ▲ | paxys 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Yeah solving a Millennium Problem is totally equivalent to calculating another digit of pi. |
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| ▲ | sherburt3 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Its called an analogy | | |
| ▲ | JohnKemeny 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It's one of the seven most important problems in mathematics. Pick a better analogy. | | |
| ▲ | dgellow 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | If you want to be pedantic it’s one of the 7 problems a specific institute considers to be the most important in mathematics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems (Not that I think the comparison to pi digits make sense) | | |
| ▲ | lackoftactics an hour ago | parent [-] | | are we really moving the goalpost after solving Millenium Prize Problem? Six years ago that would be something, but today let's move the goalpost | | |
| ▲ | paxys an hour ago | parent [-] | | Willing to bet if an AI next cures a cancer people here will go “that wasn’t the most dangerous type of cancer so it is meaningless”. |
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| ▲ | sherburt3 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | If anything I'm diminishing the importance of calculus and pi by comparing it to this bullshit |
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| ▲ | raincole 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It's a really bad analogy then. So bad that it's hard to find an analogy describing how bad it is :) | |
| ▲ | Bootvis 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | GP is saying it’s not a very good one. | |
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