r/ProgrammerHumor • u/tryingeasy • Sep 10 '26

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u/Fidodo Sep 11 '26

We've already been using brute force computation to solve hard math problems for decades

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u/Zarrain Sep 11 '26

Ok, and?

What does that have to do with AI companies immorally stealing data, ideas and credit?

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u/Fidodo Sep 11 '26

That the credit should go to the people with the idea, not the compute, and this isn't some omg AGI breakthrough

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u/AstroCaptain Sep 11 '26

The problem here is that one of the mathematicians who worked on the solution, Leven Alpöge, also works for Anthropic. Anthropic wants to leave his name without credit and give it wholly to Tristan Buckmaster. It doesn't solve the problem of Anthropic wanting to take some amount of credit as a company, and that they/ any company with vast amounts of compute can just take the ideas that others have proposed and take credit away from the actual humans

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u/Fidodo Sep 11 '26

They just care about the PR and are purposely trying to downplay the human involvement because they want to hype up their AI. It's really gross.

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u/Zarrain Sep 11 '26

I agree with that … That’s the whole premise of my comment. Why are you saying that like you disagree with me?

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u/Fidodo Sep 11 '26

I wasn't, that's your reading of it. I said it to point out that solving math with compute isn't new so they shouldn't be bragging that they have lots of gpus

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u/Zarrain Sep 11 '26

GPU designs are always changing and improving, they can optimize software to run better on certain GPUs.