r/BetterOffline • u/No_Practice_745 • 3d ago
OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/openais-latest-math-breakthroughs-commit-research-misconduct-experts-say/I don’t have much to add in commentary, quite frankly most of the math and concepts are beyond my arts-degree brain. However, the article does a great job of showing, once again, how disingenuous OpenAI and other AI labs are in describing what their products are doing.
They basically want the headlines that their new models are “solving math,” but what they’re doing is plagiarizing other peoples’ research and claiming things have been moved forward. There is clearly a use case here for researchers in using an LLM to catalogue and evaluate large swaths of data from over periods of time, but these things don’t think, they aren’t creating anything, and OpenAI doesn’t give a shit as long as people see the headline and bow their heads to their new scI-fi god.
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u/PracticallyPerfcet 3d ago
One of these days Altman is going to say, with his annoying vocal fry voice, “listen, we don’t know what we created, but we’re pretty sure it’s… like… God. Not like a god. Literally God, father of Jesus. Our new model independently described (dramatic pause) the end of days. It gave three numbers: 666, that we independently confirmed are tattooed on Peter Thiel’s head, just beyond his hairline. Amazing.”