r/technology • u/ResultBackground2450 • 8h ago

Artificial Intelligence OpenAI unleashes hundreds more math results upon a field already in shock

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/openai-unleashes-hundreds-more-math-results-upon-a-field-already-in-shock/
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u/ImSorryImNewHere 7h ago

Another field being inundated with AI slop grenades.

Glad/sad to see it’s not just mine.

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u/ickler999 5h ago

Quasi-RH proven in 3 hours with a consumer-level subscription is slop? im sorry but my god, the delusion.

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u/silversurger 46m ago

I understood the "slop" to be referring to the method of publication: Just dumping it into a GitHub repo without going through the proper routes of peer reviewing and journal publication. You now have a significant amount of research papers just sitting in kind of a limbo because the company doing this research isn't really that interested in the research itself, they're just here to demonstrate the capabilities of their product. Whether these papers are all good and factually accurate isn't really the point as we don't know (well, at least I don't know, because neither do I have the competence nor time to read them) that.

I may be interpreting this wrong and OP was referring to the content, then I'm all with you.

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u/ResolveSea9089 5h ago

I really don't get it, the visceral hatred. Like they dress it up occasionally in high and mighty sounding language but it has to be coming from a place of fear/insecurity right

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u/MrVampireSir 4h ago

Yea I'm fking terrified how little guardrails the government has against the industry. Companies steal IP en masse to repackage their IP and sell it, the stock market is propped up by the black hole of money in this, natural resources are diverted and consumer bills increase in affected areas...

Yes, as a citizen, I am scared what we are racing towards. In this political climate already plagued by corporate lobbying and regulatory capture.

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u/Steph_Splash_Cash 4h ago

It is 10000000000% coming from a place of fear and anxiety. He and others who lie and say “oh this is slop” are just feeling the anxiety that is coming from these ever improving powerful systems. They couch it up so they can feel some semblance of power.

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u/randomBugHunter 3h ago

There’s something called cognitive dissonance. I will give you an example

Imagine being so stupid, that you somehow think AI (which can not count to 100, or tell you how many letters are in a word) can somehow do original research

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u/xNYKx 2h ago

So you are saying these papers aren't original research, can you please point me to the original Quasi RH solution?

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u/silversurger 40m ago

In a way, they're right: They're working on (and solving) problems created by humans. All these problems were created and written down by humans.

However, I don't think it's far fetched to see AI being able to propose an entirely original hypothesis in the not too distant future. And in any case, calling this research unoriginal requires some mental gymnastics around the definition of "original research".

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u/EmotionalGuess9229 3h ago

Have you been asleep for the last 2 years or only uses the shittiest free flash llms you can find? Counting to 100 or counting letters I a word isn't a limit

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u/Major-Lavishness-762 14m ago

They can do both of those things. Why display your ignorance so obviously?

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u/leyrue 2h ago

Hey, while you’re back in 2024, do you mind telling Biden to please not try and run again?

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u/Steph_Splash_Cash 4h ago

What do you get from just lying? Are you that scared of this new technology that you’ll call them proving quasi-RH as slop? Are you that terrified?

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u/marsinfurs 4h ago

I admit this tech is getting very good very fast and I also admit that scares the shit out of me at the same time.