OpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approach
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes
Two of the most exciting results, the experts say, incorporate preexisting ideas from the recent mathematical literature without properly citing them. This contradicts OpenAI’s initial press release, which said that the problems Astra addressed “have been open and seen no progress on the main result for at least a decade.” (OpenAI has since updated the language to be more accurate).
“They are running roughshod over the work of others who came before them in a deliberate way,” says Stephen Miller, a mathematician at Yeshiva University, who argues that OpenAI has effectively plagiarized his own research. “It seems completely systematic to me, and it points to research misconduct.”
Imagine sharing Stephen Miller as a name, ouch.
Move fast and break people.
accelerationism, fascism
When the AI ‘breakthrough’ turns out to be plagiarism yet again: 😲
It’s probably going to get worse.
Soon there will be an influx of randos on social media who just vibe through every open problem in the book with no regard for research ethics. If OpenAI have no regard for research ethics, why should randos do it?
But hey, at least it will be formalized in Lean alongside with some gibberish written in LaTeX.
They always do some dumb PR push before a release whether it’s “It said it would blackmail people” or “It broke containment in a role playing game we set up”.
This weeks claim to intelligence is “We used super secret stolen maths!”… So? It’s still going to be a jelly-brained idiot like every other model produced - because it’s a technology for generating averageness.
It’s not intelligent, it can’t experience the world. They desperately want this moderately good searching and averaging algorithm to be their intelligent progeny - and it never will be.
I think it’s great that they set it on open math problems for this reason. It’s relatively straight forward to prove/disprove if it did anything novel or just combined a bunch of things it’s trained on like i’d expect.
This shit has me so fucked up. GPT is incapable of actual reasoning, but says what’s “likely” to come next. Actual genius comes from nuance and novel approaches. When the fuck have we lost the plot this hard?
Marketing.
There’s a Super Smash Brothers Melee decomp that was just recentlynfinished thanks to AI. It helped with looping the shit outta processes, wasn’t allowed to do any “thinking” and was just a jig fuckin’ macro. The one thing it does well is it brute-forces gruntwork (and sometimes accidentally outputs a statistically most-correct answer).
Did it think? Did it reason? No. It was a shitload of loops and comparisons that just take a while, manually.
This is from August 6 so “the weekend” was a month ago, in case anyone wondered whether something new had dropped in the past day or two. There was an FLT formalization on Friday(?) fwiw.
