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accurrenttoday at 8:25 AM2 repliesview on HN

One thing that concerns me from all this is "understanding" is very important to human progress. The fact it took 400 years to crack Fermat's theorem resulted in a lot of "Side Quests". These side quests helped grow other fields (for instance elliptical cryptography). Im concerned with AI that we will loose these side quests.


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jochem9today at 9:47 AM

We'll get innovations in AI as a side effect.

blfrtoday at 8:27 AM

I do neither maths nor science with AI but in my experience most models are perfectly willing to burn tokens on a ton of sidequests at the earliest opportunity.

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