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tomlockwoodtoday at 2:41 AM3 repliesview on HN

My big question with all these announcements is: How many other people were using the AI on problems like this, and, failing? Given the excitement around AI at the moment I think the answer is: a lot.

Then my second question is how much VC money did all those tokens cost.


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ecshafertoday at 3:54 AM

I've tried my hand at a few of the Erdos problems and came up short, you didn't hear about them. But if a Mathematician at Harvard solved on, you would probably still hear about it a bit. Just the possibility that a pro subscription for 80 minutes solved an Erdos problem is astounding. Maybe we get some researchers to get a grant and burn a couple data centers worth of tokens for a day/week/month and see what it comes up with?

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gdhkgdhkvfftoday at 2:51 AM

Why do you care about either of those questions?

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petefordetoday at 3:30 AM

Can you imagine how many bags of chips we could buy if we stopped funding cancer research?

It's so expensive!

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