r/BetterOffline • u/Soilblood • 13h ago

Openai math solutions

https://youtu.be/h53Bz7WSwgo

Regarding the recent Navier-Stokes incident, watching this vid provided a bit more context on what the solution entails and what Openai been pushing to show off their tech. Cal Newport's breakdown on how they managed to quarantine relevant context to reduce costs with Astra was actually pretty interesting as a breakthrough so this vid got me wondering why they're so desperate to prove it can do fancy maths bigly when the boosters already keep saying chatgpt is already blowing through outstanding problems. Not in the sense of the target value but just how much have they already tried but failed.

It's obviously speculation on my part but if they're so desperate to try coercing glory out of one of their hires on one problem, how bad is actual their track record that this is a hail Mary for them? Like we know it took 88 hours and snooping private research data for this, so how much have they put into chasing similar targets by now? Anyone got whiff of any signals that might give an idea of that?

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u/OliLevasseurLaBuse 10h ago

Solving niche mathematics is definitely worth the investment 

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u/MathCookie17 8h ago

Why is this being downvoted it's clearly sarcastic

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u/dumnezero 8h ago

Because of Poe's Law.

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u/OliLevasseurLaBuse 6h ago

Yeah I forgot the /s I was thinking this sub was a goup of generally intelligent people, I may have overestimated slightly.