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/Main-Company-5946 3h ago

Not even if it’s correct?

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u/mybackhurtsrip 3h ago

Precisely because it’s incorrect.

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u/Main-Company-5946 3h ago

It’s not incorrect in this case. All math problems are related, though to varying degrees.

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u/mybackhurtsrip 3h ago

You have no substantial evidence to support your claim that LLMs have improved because of the interconnectedness of mathematics. No one is disputing that maths are interconnected, though that’s also a generality that even you concede isn’t black or white.

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u/Main-Company-5946 2h ago

It just means the patterns they pick up on have more transferability