Yes. What the headlines hailed as an AGI discovery the facts show more to be someone spending years mining for gold, rumor gets to OpenAI that there might be gold in this specific place, they mine there and instantly discover gold, then tell the world they’ve developed the worlds best gold finding/mining machine.

Separate from all the allegations of more nefarious actions and ethical issues, that’s the most charitable version of what happened here.

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Romario77 2 hours ago | parent [-]

they threw it on all the millenial math problems (I think there are 6 at this point unsolved, well, 5 now).

And according to them at some point they saw that one was close to being solved, so they pointed all the agents at it.

The same thing happens to humans - at this time there are no simple problems left, so solving the hard ones requires using prior knowledge and attempts at solving things.

	▲	nrdvana 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah but the one they decided the AI was close to solving may have been so because the researchers' progress on this problem became part of the training data for that AI...