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This.
I do dislike the AI oligarchs as much as the next person, but I do find the thread full of complaining a bit depressing still.
If the result holds (and it looks it does), this may be one of the, if not the, biggest things to happen in computing to date. A lot bigger than e.g. Deep Blue beating Kasparov in chess or AlphaGo beating Sedol in Go.
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assume all you want is the proof. now you have the proof. did openai make the world a better place, by turning on 300b tokens in 7 days and bulldozing members of the community who were also working on the problem? just to undercut a rival?
what would have happened if they didn't do this? they could have done things the right way. we could celebrate this achievement.
perhaps they could have taken just a few weeks, even, to work out something with buckmaster and apoge.
i am very concerned that this is a glimpse of things to come. a malign elite with powerful ai, who will turn the sublime of technology into barbarity, violence and human oppression.
if sam altman has destroyed openai's public benefit corp with lesser tools why would he aid humanity with even greater power?
I dislike both AI oligarchs as much as people who do this kind of deflection.
People are not complaining about problems being solved or advancement in technology. They are complaining about terrible people doing terrible things.
Seeing mathematicians such as Terry Tao being unhappy with open problems being solved makes me sort of question the usefulness of any of this pure mathematics. If we're not happy that the problems are being solved, why care about this field at all?