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lanthissayesterday at 5:27 PM3 repliesview on HN

5 million messages, 300b output tokens, done in 5 days, and achieving something humans couldn't.

the first "Country of geniuses in a datacenter" moment.


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ranger207yesterday at 5:32 PM

> humans couldn't.

There's allegations right now that the model essentially read the work of a human mathematician using AI to work on the problem and OpenAI is presenting his work as that of their model

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drpixieyesterday at 11:52 PM

That is how the PR reads, but is not at all what happened.

A team of highly trained and skilled people used an AI tool, through many many instructions (prompts), to produce a specific mathematical theorem. The tool is impressive, the result (possibly/probably) interesting, but the PR skips the vital role of the humans (for the usual PR reasons).

sinuhe69yesterday at 7:19 PM

I'm tired of this, but please read the post of Tao. It’s listed in the top comment of this thread.