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Ask HN: Why is HN focusing a lot on human drama and not AI solving ME problem?

1 points by aurareturn ↗ HN
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Why is HN focusing so much on the human drama of OpenAI and Anthropic and not the fact that AI just solved a millennium problem in a single week? The fact that AI did this means we should see more unsolved problems in all fields rapidly soon.

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nhgiang
Because normal people sympathise more with normal people being ripped off by corporation than they do with privileged people chasing grandeur problems
gus_massa
Mathematician here.

1) People love soap operas.

2) They used a lot of computing power, i.e. a lot of money. I care more about what I or my coworkers can get paying a few bucks per month.

3) For short delimited math problems, LLM are amazing, better than me, even the cheap versions. For long fuzzy problems, we still have to steer a boat. I think we still have a few year of centaur math until it's cheap enough.

4) If Magnus still can play chess, I still can do math.