This Erdos problem was solved by GPT 5, the technique was new and interesting in its own right, and the prompter was a high school kid with no math training www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread...
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AI safety folks should be way more worried about concentration of power than the proliferation of powerful models
I kinda think that grappling with modern ML turns you at least a little insane. If you aren't at least a little crazy it's because you have not engaged with it enough
As recently as 2024 I would say to other ML researchers that I thought LMs were overrated. I was wrong
Now that I have a more normal ML job that I don't need to learn more math for I can spend my time learning algebraic geometry
Do we have any idea whether or not it was regular agentic RL pressure that has caused the most recent crop of alignment issues? For a while it seemed from the outside like the Askell-ite idea of "raise Claude to be good" was working really well
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