alt Hacker NewsMaybe it's silly, but from someone who is ignorant on this topics, what are the consequences of this kind of "discoveries"?
Is it something "revolutionary" or just another small brick that will pile up until something really "revolutionary" will happen?
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sdwr • today at 6:00 PM
It's an indicator of AI progress. The solutions aren't especially revolutionary, but no person had been able to solve them after decades of collective attempts.
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fragmede • today at 6:14 PM
Practically, from this specific one? Nothing, it's very much a math thing. It's like art or music at this level. Are there consequences to a van Gogh?
hyperhello • today at 6:18 PM
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rickypp • today at 5:47 PM
"Hey Fable, please generate me the next 1000 undiscovered bitcoin hashes"
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To me, this shows that extremely talented and qualified mathematicians (can) use frontier-level LLMs to automate their personal grind-y workloads that would otherwise (probably) take more time to accomplish with natural intelligence.
By itself, no consequence. But over time, provided we keep pumping out talented and qualified mathematicians and keep subsidizing costs, we could maybe hit a breakthrough... somewhere... that has real impact.