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AI mathematics revolution Quanta overview

The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived | Quanta Magazine

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“If you want to see what an independent mathematician thinks of these models, just read the nuanced take that Terry Tao (considered by many as the world's greatest living mathematician) has on them: www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-revol...”

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Alex Gude : Hilarious new conspiracy theory just dropped: OpenAI is secretly hiring human mathematicians to solve major open problems in mathematics and lying to pretend the AI did it.
SE Gyges: they have gotten several conjectures that people spent literally generations working on without success, either they have on staff better mathematical talent than the rest of the world combined man…
SE Gyges: ... also, unaffiliated mathematicians have also reported getting good results from them and have often released transcripts + code
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3 experts · 11 posts · 3d ago
Ted Underwood jake dan
dan: again i don’t quite understand this because mathematics is fundamental. the platonic voice in me says let’s see the undiscovered country! no one is poorer for having skipped a few thousand years of…
Ted Underwood: again i don’t quite understand this because mathematics is fundamental. the platonic voice in me says let’s see the undiscovered country! no one is poorer for having skipped a few thousand years of…
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4 experts · 6 posts · 5d ago
Ethan Mollick Chris Paxton jake apenwarr.ca
Ethan Mollick: I am confused about the belief that if open weights eventually dominate it will lead to the collapse of AI. If the Labs lose (which is not happening now), it isn’t because AI was useless: compute i…
apenwarr.ca: Could lead to a dotcom-level crash, which was giant but notably didn’t kill the whole Internet. Hardware providers, they suffered tremendously after the dotcom crash (see Nortel) because their buye…
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3 experts · 14 posts · 18d ago
Eli Sennesh jake tachikoma
tachikoma: this isn't even denying science that's not understandable or too imperceptible to notice (like climate change), it's just empirical results in front of your eyes, in minutes
jake: the person you're replying to is one of the core developers on the site you're using to post this, so maybe you don't work on the same kinds of projects... but devs work on *massive* software proje…
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2 experts · 9 posts · 6d ago
Ryan Moulton jake
Ryan Moulton: I wonder if LLMs will so dominate what everyone reads, and consequently what they write, that in a decade pre-LLM English will feel stilted and old, or maybe even unintelligible.
jake: but Go actually *is* nearly unintelligible compared to pre-AlphaGo! I say this as someone who never even made it up to shodan level, even the cheapass amateurs at my level play *way* differently th…
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3 experts · 3 posts · 6d ago
Tim Kellogg jake Michiel Bontenbal
Tim Kellogg: i’m kind of split on this one the one hand, i love the message. love open source, democratization, etc. otoh, it’s a very self-serving message for Xi and likely not durable if it doesn’t involve Ch…
Michiel Bontenbal: China will offer AI systems to (authoritarian) leaders of the global south. “You like your AI models censored? We have them.”
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2 experts · 9 posts · 16d ago
Tim Kellogg jake
Tim Kellogg: went back & forth with Chat this morning and i think: 1. yes, the KV cache actually does preserve some portion of the activations 2. that probably means looped transformers probably aren’t as appea…
Tim Kellogg: the main difference between looped transformers and regular LLMs is 1. a small amount of lost state from the last transformer block through the output layer 2. looped transformers don’t force a com…
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