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▲ jerf 8 hours ago

Well, I can answer this one: https://stoppels.ch/goalposts/?c=40662140

jerf, 2024: "If it could be solved with a Math Overflow-post level of effort, even from Terence Tao, it isn't what I was talking about as "high level math".

"I also am not surprised by "Consider a generation function" coming out of an LLM. I am talking about a system that could solve that problem, entirely, as doing high level math. A system that can emit "have you considered using wood?" is not a system that can build a house autonomously.

"It especially won't seem all that useful next to the generation of AIs I anticipate to be coming which use LLMs as a component to understand the world but are not just big LLMs."

The voting gloss: "An AI fully solves a research-level math problem on its own, not just suggesting an approach."

Yes, I'm satisfied. I don't even feel bad in hindsight. Coding assistants had a nice, gradual rise up the utility curve. Math went from "lol, can't add two six-digit numbers" to research-math level almost overnight in comparison.

▲48844858 4 hours ago | parent [-]

But it still makes mistakes when adding numbers

▲sanex an hour ago | parent | next [-]

So do I, that it why both I and claude use calculators. :)

▲mswphd 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

see the Grothendiek prime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/57_(number)

▲shiandow 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Honestly that makes me more convinced it's actually doing mathematics.

▲CamperBob2 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No, not really. Not unless you go out of your way to use an obsolete or extremely low-end model.