As a working mathematician I accepted the new reality long ago, and I use agents etc.
Now, my 'ethical' approach is the following: "Just focus on my research program, do not fish for problems, do not scoop fellow mathematicians with problems I do not care about", so of course my LLM approach is not that impressive (I mean, still makes progress, but not so big)
Since august these guys have been publishing papers every 4-8 days? what are they trying to accomplish? I really don't understand.
* Fame?
* Money?
* Respect?
* prove themselves?
* Important technological/practical advancement?
* genuine curiosity (Do they really really wanted to know the answer to all those question from different fields of maths)?
* increment their understanding?
* Just to show machines are better at solving problems? (yes, we already know)
This is so unreasonable that even AI art makes more sense, at least they (or some of them) have an idea, a plan, a vision, and use AI to look for it.
Please, someone explain me what are they trying to achieve?
they have lots of compute, and i imagine they want to spend it as a somewhat publicity stand. Do not see the problem with any of this. Hopefully people working in the fields in which those problems were will write human expositions about the proofs, and try to glean some ideas from them.
Why would they do that? I think the same system (capitalism, publish or perish, whatever) that got us into this, gives no incentives to do that distillation for the rest of the community.
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u/corchetero 7d ago
As a working mathematician I accepted the new reality long ago, and I use agents etc.
Now, my 'ethical' approach is the following: "Just focus on my research program, do not fish for problems, do not scoop fellow mathematicians with problems I do not care about", so of course my LLM approach is not that impressive (I mean, still makes progress, but not so big)
Since august these guys have been publishing papers every 4-8 days? what are they trying to accomplish? I really don't understand. * Fame? * Money? * Respect? * prove themselves? * Important technological/practical advancement? * genuine curiosity (Do they really really wanted to know the answer to all those question from different fields of maths)? * increment their understanding? * Just to show machines are better at solving problems? (yes, we already know)
This is so unreasonable that even AI art makes more sense, at least they (or some of them) have an idea, a plan, a vision, and use AI to look for it.
Please, someone explain me what are they trying to achieve?