alt Hacker NewsOpenAI withdraws three mathematical results
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Tao and most anti/critical ai math folks remind me a bit of the brhamins in the hindu caste hirarchy system... whilst others fought (kshatriyas), farmed/traded (vaishyas), built things, cleaned roads etc (shudras), the brahmins were the high priest doing science, stronomy, religion ...
AI is this strange modernist machinary that kind of threatens that brhaminic role... its almost like the vatican vs post industrialization world .. where they still have to keep making the case for why religion/priesthood/god is important... even as the tech/science world starts operating on totally different terms...
Imagine how many wasted hours in peer review these AI math papers will cause for the 1% chance of reaching a transformative idea.
So four hundred and fifty comments, all these upvotes that they withdraw three, but no one gives a fuck that they solve seven hundred. All the problems with humanity summed up.
OpenAI would never lie. HN can't be this stupid.
The papers were all in a 'preprint' directory in GitHub. Academic mathematicians seem to think all research should happen in secret until it's completely proven.
But how much more progress would have been made in the last 100 years if they collaborated in real time? Watching the work someone is doing and spotting errors, or making suggestions would be a good thing. Unless the goal is simply to claim credit for a discovery vs the discovery itself.
Yet another embarrassment. If only they had had access to a group of mathematicians willing to offer them advice on what to do with their outputs.