math major here, I can't read the paper for shit

moishe_syzslak 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not a math major here. But is this paper way too long? So long that it raises the possibility that OpenAI's staff mathematicians passed through AI's raw output as-is?

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eru 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That problem seems independent of the 'stochastic parrot' accusation?

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freecodeio 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A parrot might squeak the theory of everything and it won't matter to any of us cause nobody speaks parrot.

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eru 7 hours ago | parent [-]

We can record a lot of parrot speech and train LLMs against it and eventually build a translator.

They are making good progress on similar research programmes for many cetaceans.

In the case of our stochastic parrots it's even easier, since they already speak something like human language. And for the math proofs it's even easier, because once they are formalised into something like Lean the humans only need to understand the statement of the theorem, and a mechanical computer program can check the proof.

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freecodeio 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes we can just train llms against it and it's all solved. Just a few more trillion dollars and a bunch of deforestation for datacenters bro.

	▲	CaptWorld 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ironically yeah.. if it can solve more complex problems across domains like biology, econ, finance then all the deforestation is worth it

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aaron695 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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