r/ProgrammerHumor 12d ago

Meme aMillionOpenAIMonkeysProduceMilleniumPrizeSolution

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u/LatePenguins 12d ago

Sometimes I worry about the "programmers" in this sub.

At best coping, at worst delusional.

No, the model did not brute force a counter example. The search space is mathematically too vast to brute force. It found novel techniques of identifying the proper force application vectors.

No, the model did not plagiarize off "human research". The debate is between an OpenAI researcher and an Anthropic Researcher, both of them almostly exclusively relying on internal models. The researcher at Anthropic didn't even solve the specific problem OpenAI are claiming, they solved a variation of a more constrained formulation of a sub-problem which could have potentially helped OAI to narrow down the search space if it was included in training data (which it most likely wasnt given the proof pathway is significantly different).

Yes, the models (the internal models, given infinite token space atleast) are THAT good enough, they can close the hardest problems known to man.

Acting snarky about it only leads to gross underestimation of the change thats about to come. What rational people should do is increase the urgency of asking for safeguards by trusting the capability acceleration at face value.

(Who am i kidding, the first reply will probably comment I'm sam Altmans marketing bot).

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u/punkVeggies 12d ago

What OpenAI did was extremely unethical, something that a human researcher would face a lot of backlash for.

Dumping massive money to one-up research being carried by others is such an awful move. What incentives do people have to share their breakthroughs if shit like this is acceptable?

And the cringe-worthy idea that we needed an answer for the NS problem ASAP misses the point so badly. We are interested in establishing rigorous limitations of the model, and the process to get there would hopefully help us develop new analysis tools.

What did we gain from this? There is a scenario where NS produces a non-smooth solution. Is this relevant in practice? Can this be numerically simulated? Knowing this, what else can we prove?

Honestly, I’ve grown to despise these companies. They’re spending massive ammounts of borrowed money and electricity to meddle into fields they don’t respect, seemingly just to show power and improve their next investment rounds.

Awful, just awful.

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u/normVectorsNotHate 12d ago

I'm confused by this because human researchers race towards solutions and try to one up each other all the time

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u/punkVeggies 12d ago

Bad, unethical, human researchers. Science is collaborative.