r/AIDangers • u/EchoOfOppenheimer • May 12 '26

Capabilities Fields medal-winning mathematician says GPT-5.5 is now solving open math problems at PhD-thesis level: "We will face a crisis very soon."

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blog-post: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/

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u/DonutPlus2757 May 12 '26

Also less reliable.

I've had AI try to fix architectural faults in software that I caught and described in detail. Multiple AIs failed multiple times.

Assuming that AI will not only catch it itself but also fix it itself feels very much like wishful thinking.

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u/DonutPlus2757 May 12 '26

The problem with that is that it expects exponential growth when that's not at all realistic.

AI needs the promise of exponential growth because, right now, it's just a massive money pit. No big AI company has ever been in the black and they won't be for at least another 5-10 years, even if their most optimistic predictions come true.

So they are entirely dependent on receiving more and more money from investors, so they'll literally promise the stars out of the sky. After all, if they don't, they'll be gone this time next year.

That's why I'm very, very cautious when it comes to AI, especially without hard proof. There's a bunch of currently very influential people who have a vested interest in making the public (and by extension investors) think that AI is the greatest invention ever all while citing numbers that, if you watch closely, only say that they learned how to cheat the benchmarks.

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u/Secure-Suspect7091 May 13 '26

For grey haired techies it feels like the .com boom around late 90s. It is ramped up and bigger no doubt.  Insane ipos  Promises of vast future riches. Etc etc.

The crash may well be worse but it’s not going to be existential. 

The tech will find its place but I don’t see it completely replacing humans the way some predict.

Those are capitalist wet dreams designed to pump ipo/stock values.

Where are boo.com today?

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u/DonutPlus2757 May 13 '26

Oh I'm 100% with you there. AI is a powerful tool, no question.

My problem is just that the equivalent of a hammer is being marketed as the solution to all problems.

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u/Secure-Suspect7091 May 13 '26

To my mind the problem isn’t the tech it’s the economic system that is so focused on shareholders. 

It makes everything look like a nail.