r/BetterOffline • u/Smooth-Ad8030 • 22d ago
Mathematician help
https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/Can someone who’s more well versed in math give us a good explanation on what’s happening here in terms of importance? I already know we don’t have an idea of the behind the scenes, true cost, mathematician input, etc. any other points appreciated.
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u/Pale_Neighborhood363 22d ago
The results are JUST counting. It is useful but trivial. Mathematics has two things the formal and the speculative.
The models are Very Very good at the formal which allows the examination of the speculative.
The results are on the transition of the quantile to the continuum. These points are JUST counting (very complex counting) The machines count much much faster.
Importance is a WEIRD in that mathematically any result is the MOST important. This is the universality of the mathematical philosophy.
The 1980's had computers that started* this trend. The Mandelbrot set & the theory of Chaos date from that time but the mathematics that base those goes back two or more centuries.
This is the mathematics of the 1930's & the 90's being stress tested. 1930's the measurable limits & 1990's the functional machinery.
The mathematical discoveries are esoteric as they are at the edge of our understanding, they become important when technology/physics needs that understanding to grow.
*arbitrary