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Multiple readings GitHub - openai/math Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions
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Established Models & releases Development 16d ago
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OpenAI angers mathematicians again

GitHub - openai/math

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Why this matches Context & explanation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Alejandra Caraballo
“Oh my god, OpenAI just made the single largest advancement in mathematics and number theory in modern history. They released a quasi reimann hypothesis. This is just one of 722 proofs and advancements they released all at once. github.com/openai/math” evidence ↗
11 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Ted Underwood Kyle Cranmer Tim Kellogg Gilles Louppe Dashiell Alejandra Caraballo Samuel Vaiter +3
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Multiple readings

Research & technical analysis

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“Link: github.com/openai/math P.S.1: This reminds me of the Chinese room argument, though only indirectly. P.S.2: I imagine a few people at OpenAI have looked at the results. Also maybe some other people have looked at some papers since ~1h ago. These are o(…”

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“OpenAI is working on at least 722 (so far) math manuscripts, all on GitHub in various stages of verificantion github.com/openai/math Why? I guess because they can?”

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“Oh my god, OpenAI just made the single largest advancement in mathematics and number theory in modern history. They released a quasi reimann hypothesis. This is just one of 722 proofs and advancements they released all at once. github.com/openai/math”

3 experts discussed this · 27 posts
Dashiell: I don't think there's a world where mathematicians aren't pissed about this. 1. Dumping everything is what the advisory group said 2. Just yesterday people were mad that Ant paid two experts to dig…
Naomi Saphra: I think (2) is actually good. It is weird, and makes mathematicians into some kind of benchmark evaluation annotator which they don’t like, but it’s just a hard time to be a mathematician. Destroyi…
Naomi Saphra: One big consequence here is you can’t use the duration of an open problem as a sign of difficulty/importance. But at least right now, there’s no way to develop interesting open problems through RLV…
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Established Models & releases Release 20d ago
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Aleph Alpha Kolibri-1 release

Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1 · Hugging Face

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Why this matches Context & explanation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Sung Kim
“Aleph Alpha, soon to be part of Cohere, released open-weight of Kolibri. 78B parameters. 3.46B active. Up to 1M tokens of context. Built in Europe. Model: huggingface.co/Aleph-Alpha/... Tech Report: aleph-alpha.com/downloads/te...” evidence ↗
3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Ted Underwood Sung Kim Michiel Bontenbal

“Aleph Alpha, soon to be part of Cohere, released open-weight of Kolibri. 78B parameters. 3.46B active. Up to 1M tokens of context. Built in Europe. Model: huggingface.co/Aleph-Alpha/... Tech Report: aleph-alpha.com/downloads/te...”

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Established AI field signal Signal 20d ago

aleph-alpha.com

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Why this matches Context & explanation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Sung Kim
“Aleph Alpha, soon to be part of Cohere, released open-weight of Kolibri. 78B parameters. 3.46B active. Up to 1M tokens of context. Built in Europe. Model: huggingface.co/Aleph-Alpha/... Tech Report: aleph-alpha.com/downloads/te...” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Ted Underwood Sung Kim

“Aleph Alpha, soon to be part of Cohere, released open-weight of Kolibri. 78B parameters. 3.46B active. Up to 1M tokens of context. Built in Europe. Model: huggingface.co/Aleph-Alpha/... Tech Report: aleph-alpha.com/downloads/te...”

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9 experts · 63 posts · 13d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood Cat Hicks Chelsea Parlett critical slop studies Adam L Mary Branscombe Amy Hoy
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“Obviously we might decide certain goals are not for us or are hypocritical but that's entirely outside of my thread. it's weird to react to a post like this by asserting all this social context tha…” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Markets & investment · 4 Research & technical analysis · 1
Cat Hicks: "why would I ever need a task to be done faster" come on, guys. Because we're dying. Because we are literally all dying all the time. Because we're running out of time. The fact that it's often har…
Cat Hicks: because tasks gate other tasks. Because measuring the hours saved by washing machines is a relatively useful index for quality of life improvement. Because the time it takes for you to get from the…
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8 experts · 30 posts · 7d ago
Ted Underwood jake Colin tweety fish René Walter Matt Darling Singularity's Bounty e/cc Andrea Lathrop
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“what is in the image is the full context” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Colin: Frankenmodel refuses to believe it's not just Claude
Colin: I don't think if you put 6 people in a circle and asked them to tell a story one word at a time they would, together, spontaneously create a story which denies that they are indeed six individuals
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7 experts · 10 posts · 2d ago
Ted Underwood Ramon Astudillo Tim Kellogg Grace Alex Hern Max Woolf Matt Darling
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“Which is basically exactly what happened in the telecoms boom and bust cycle 25 years ago. We all got cheap broadband and telecoms companies went bust, it was great” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Opportunity & adoption · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Matt Darling: ... I don't think BlueSky in aggregate has a good understanding of accounting and suspect this is legitimate confusion.
Matt Darling: Fair!
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3 experts · 11 posts · 15d ago
Ted Underwood Marzena Karpinska Jenna Russell
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“The differentia here are really close to the ones Opus 5 uses, for instance, to diagnose this as LLM-written rather than authentically historical. ... and now I'm giving away my real reason for bei…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Ted Underwood: This is complex — and likely a bit fragile — but very cool. Actually less interested in the ostensible end goal (Pangram for Ideas) and more in the problems you have to solve to get there (separati…
Ted Underwood: There's some crazy stuff in the ablations. The order of elements has almost no significance. The "discourse roles" they infer? Not load-bearing. You can remove them. On the other hand, it's possibl…
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