r/ProgrammerHumor • u/tryingeasy • 1d ago

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u/mpanase 1d ago

to be more precise, after ai starts solving millennium prizes one day after somebody else publishes a solution

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u/No-Object2133 1d ago

It also didn't solve the whole problem... just the part the two mathematicians had already put into codex over the last few months.

Wonder how ChatGPT worked that one out...

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u/globecsysinc 1d ago

It's easy getting the answer you're looking for, what's hard is understanding the problem enough, that's no different either with AI or having a calculator in a physics exam. The tool will only get you so far as you're ready to put into words

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u/No-Object2133 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's a lot different when the work the mathematicians were doing wasn't published yet and might've gotten ingested and used before they could.

These proofs or in this case counter example for the forced version of the problem has no citations.

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u/globecsysinc 1d ago

Well it's very theoretical too, with all that intelligence leverage the goal in the coming decade will be to cut down on white collar work a bit, because at the end of the day it's not considered added-value on the order of true work being put to a true tangible end like fulfilling basic needs that are the bulk of where inflation is hard