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I feel that these suspicions of mathematicians "seeding" the models' with intuition on how to solve these problems massively overestimates how much their prompts helped the models, and underestimated how much work the models did.
Why? We are scared of AI being smarter than us, the "human helped the AI" narrative is more psychologically comforting. This line of reasoning will recur a lot over the next few months; we don't want to admit we are no longer the smartest species.
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Of previous, not concurrent work. Science is friendly competition, and spying on others is unfriendly.
Please stop with this psychoanalyis and mind reading with AI and human fear. It’s a thought terminating cliche at this point.
In this case, it’s much simpler and more human. Largely between two humans — buckmaster and Bubeck. The interesting question is what the role of contribution and credit for research in the ai world.
The capabilities of AI aren’t even in question in this case.
> We are scared of AI being smarter than us, the "human helped the AI" narrative is more psychologically comforting.
We're scared of big tech companies concentrating ridiculous amounts of power, destroying the communities that support and guide scientific research, without even thinking about the dangers and possible consequences, because a PR stunt is more important in the short term.