Think_Different_
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@willdepue do you think there will be issues with data quality when they scale up so quickly? (obv scale > everything else but could have a noticeable hit potentially, even if still a leap)
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@worlddestroyar I don't rely on public opinion for my livelihood, loser.
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It's also shockingly idiotic, for someone working on language models, to not realize that any "joke" is a training data point reshaping public opinions and expectations.
Gautam Kamath@thegautamkamath
I think frontier AI labs should hire people who either: - at least pretend to care about the people affected by their products - can make good jokes? I talk to brilliant young people every day, terrified about the future. This callousness from those inside is sad.
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@JulianLuttrell @mathandcobb It’s a proof by counterexample.
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The Riemann Hypothesis, the Goldbach conjecture, the Twin Prime conjecture... They have all been extensively verified numerically. So for all practical purposes, these are "true" statements. If needed for an actual practical use, they could easily be verified even farther.
The mathematical truth of these statements would only be "useful" to mathematicians that seek the truth and those who seek to understand *why* these statements are true.
If an AI agent proved these statements but there were no mathematicians to understand and digest the proofs, what would be the point of such a proof?
Even in the most optimistic of cases, where a super human mathematician agent exists that could prove or disprove (or declare undecideable) every statement, either there are human mathematicians that are there to understand the proof to explain it to other humans... Or there is simply no point for such a super human agent to exist in the first place.
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@DavidSacks Job postings are not rising. Layoffs are though.
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Q: How are job postings for software engineers rising rapidly despite AI agents automating coding?
A: Because there’s far more code to manage than ever before. We’re already seeing a 14x YoY increase in GitHub commits, and it’s accelerating.
AI has dramatically lowered the cost of writing code, so it’s now being used across far more businesses, applications, and use cases.
We’re at the beginning of a massive productivity boom driven by the proliferation of bespoke software throughout the entire economy.
Coding has been AI’s breakout use case this year. The fact that it’s increased demand for software engineers — rather than decreased it — should call into question the entire “AI will cause mass job loss” narrative.
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@_aidan_clark_ I'm going to argue the opposite where the most important research problems for AGI don't require that much compute and aren't the priorities for the big labs. If you're creative enough you can get by with minimal compute.
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If you want to work on pretraining-for-AGI, join OpenAI, Google, Meta or the Anthropic/XAI/Cursor supergroup.
The bitter truth of the widening compute gap is that all the problems which are actually on the critical path to AGI now demand that level of compute.
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This coffee shop in Kyiv opened yesterday, then got hit by a russian air strike just hours later.
Today, they're still open and people in Kyiv are lining up to buy a coffee to support them, stepping over debris and broken glass on the way in.
FYI, the coffee is excellent 🇺🇦
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@joeberlin53 @k_sonin Sonin is a Russian citizen. And you are a moron.
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It was a horrible night in Kyiv. But if Putin thinks he can terrorize Ukrainians into submission, he is mistaken.
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@Dorialexander Sure. Although so far there is little evidence current LLMs are capable of handling not well-specified/open-ended problems (even in maths; physics is a whole another game).
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To be honest things will really get interesting when we’ll start tackling open ended problems in physics.
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@yacineMTB Why do they need to be happy? They should just want to beat their competitors. My beat is what you mean by happy is they aren't paid better. I'd pay them 2x in cash what OAI, Google, META, etc pay
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if you're looking for examples of people you don't want to be: don't be this guy
@OpenAI are you okay with the way your employee speaks of the intended applications of one of your products?
Daniel Steigman@trekedge
What will the mathematicians do now that AI is taking their jobs
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What will the mathematicians do now that AI is taking their jobs
OpenAI@OpenAI
Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids. An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better. This marks the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics.
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@Yuchenj_UW I’m sure they will be just fine…plenty of other less well-paid people to care about who face similar problems.
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Insane if true.
So 50% of OpenAI researchers have to leave the US and return to their home countries to apply for a green card?
Don’t drive talent away.
Homeland Security@DHSgov
An alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to their home country to apply. This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes. The era of abusing our nation’s immigration system is over.
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@venturetwins @steipete Continues to be the most bench-maxxed model.
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Gemini continues to be the most fascinating model
Justine Moore@venturetwins
Incredible stuff happening on the AI-run radio stations
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Maybe @SpaceX can ask its engineers not to chant nationalist dogwhistles on the livestream please? 😒
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@GeniusGTX Jeff Bezos is a scumbag who has just been made to pay fines in NYC that he was avoiding... so he's basically acting like a butthurt child here.
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Jeff Bezos says NYC schools spend $44,000 per kid — and graduate them worse than Miami.
"The New York City school system. They spend $44,000 per student. 44,000."
"That's 30% more per student than other big cities like Chicago, LA, and Boston. And it's three times more than Miami and Houston."
"And by the way, New York City doesn't get better outcomes."
"Let me just say, if we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, your packages would take six weeks to arrive, we'd have to charge you a $100 delivery fee, and then when the package did finally arrive, it'd have the wrong item in it anyway."
"That's a skills issue, Andrew. It's just competence."
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@JDHamkins Valid point/view. Here is a graph that shows chess adoption/popularity was not affected by AI.
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I posted an answer on MathOverflow in an open-ended question about how (or why) we are to do mathematics in the era of AI. mathoverflow.net/a/511564/1946 #MathOverflow
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i just want to shake people awake. this is it! the computers are speaking! they solve Erdos problems! they think for hours! code is no longer hand-written! wake up! gradient descent on deep neural networks shows no sign of plateau! this is it!
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