This is the essence of why disciplinary, authoritarian, stick based teaching of humans generally fails. It teaches succeed at any cost.
One sees this in math research. The model reports it has proved X. In fact it has given an erroneous numerical check of Y in a few atypical cases. What makes math approachable is that the context is so well delimited…
Tha Jacobian conjecture is (was?) notorious for publication of false proofs. There have been many, not all by those who shouldn't have known better.
Perhaps all these fields medalists are just worried that AI mitigates their competitive advantages over a mediocre professional mathematician like me. Their main advantages are a kind of penetrating clear thinking that…
Tao is quite the opposite of what you describe. He's had an ongoing dialogue intellectually with the challenges created by ai for mathematicians for some time (years) now and his viewpoint is quite balanced. He is not…
"I suspect that with six good mathematicians spending their whole careers primarily focused on it, and working together closely, Navier-Stokes might well have fallen already" There were more than six doing that and it's…
The idea that mathematicians were not involved in actively directing the and structuring the search for solutions is absurd to any professional mathematician who has tried to prove things using these models.
What you say is true but ... This is qualitatively different than calculators or computers. I'm a professional mathematician and all the better mathematicians I know are in crisis mode. Most of us hadn't taken this…
Math problems are highly structured, very precisely defined, and already heavily studied and not very complicated compared to problems in engineering or finance. There's a lot of quality material on which to train and…
People are underestimating the costs in terms of money and energy. The third law of thermodynamics is an essential barrier in all engineering.
In math and theoretical physics the arxiv is the default place to publish and where one goes to find the best and most current work. Papers take a long time to review (years) particularly hard and good papers and…
Bubeck is familiar with how publishing works in mathematics.
What is specifically alleged is that a particular approach to the problem - itself not easily discoverable - was copied. This is what is meant in the text "I should say here why I interpreted their statement the way I…
A country like Spain has a formal system of grants and awards for athletes designated as "elite" and supports them roughly at the same pay as it supports junior university professors.
Calling the arxiv a vanity press shows you aren't a researcher. In math and physics all the best stuff is on the arxiv and the general level is well above the level of most journals. Journals mainly serve as…
It is capable of applying know heuristics and general principles in places where they haven't been applied and in this sense very much capable of generating conjectures in much the same way a person does. It's ability…
As a mathematician not expert kn these things, yes it scans as reasonable, and yes it has me and most of my colleagues reconsidering what we do for a living.
Sounds just like standard behavior for gaming incencyives in large institutions.
Institutions like Duke benefit enormously from having people like this around. They can claim they have lots of highly cited and well published researchers, a bit of controversy is free publicity, etc. They make money…
Part of running a profitable business is doing the right thing. Following socially obligated rules is a cost just like buying drywall. The profits at all cost mentality is a criminal mentality. Maybe it gets away with…
As a dual American-European (citizenship in both, lived in both) I celebrate the EU data privacy laws and lament the absolute lack of protection of data or privacy that prevails in the US. Because of US based websites…
ODB understood this dynamic years ago - "Wu Tang is for the children"
Instrumental education is less effective at producing innovation and utility than is basic education. Forgetting this is (and has been) destructive to universities.
One imagines they are far more worried about person X fraudulently claiming to be person Y than they are about occasionally causing problems for identical twins. Obviously the solution is to accompany facial recognition…
People on the street, so to speak, don't know better even in advanced nations with strong educational systems. Look how much rejection of vaccination there is in spite of "knowing better". In many African nations there…
This is the essence of why disciplinary, authoritarian, stick based teaching of humans generally fails. It teaches succeed at any cost.
One sees this in math research. The model reports it has proved X. In fact it has given an erroneous numerical check of Y in a few atypical cases. What makes math approachable is that the context is so well delimited…
Tha Jacobian conjecture is (was?) notorious for publication of false proofs. There have been many, not all by those who shouldn't have known better.
Perhaps all these fields medalists are just worried that AI mitigates their competitive advantages over a mediocre professional mathematician like me. Their main advantages are a kind of penetrating clear thinking that…
Tao is quite the opposite of what you describe. He's had an ongoing dialogue intellectually with the challenges created by ai for mathematicians for some time (years) now and his viewpoint is quite balanced. He is not…
"I suspect that with six good mathematicians spending their whole careers primarily focused on it, and working together closely, Navier-Stokes might well have fallen already" There were more than six doing that and it's…
The idea that mathematicians were not involved in actively directing the and structuring the search for solutions is absurd to any professional mathematician who has tried to prove things using these models.
What you say is true but ... This is qualitatively different than calculators or computers. I'm a professional mathematician and all the better mathematicians I know are in crisis mode. Most of us hadn't taken this…
Math problems are highly structured, very precisely defined, and already heavily studied and not very complicated compared to problems in engineering or finance. There's a lot of quality material on which to train and…
People are underestimating the costs in terms of money and energy. The third law of thermodynamics is an essential barrier in all engineering.
In math and theoretical physics the arxiv is the default place to publish and where one goes to find the best and most current work. Papers take a long time to review (years) particularly hard and good papers and…
Bubeck is familiar with how publishing works in mathematics.
What is specifically alleged is that a particular approach to the problem - itself not easily discoverable - was copied. This is what is meant in the text "I should say here why I interpreted their statement the way I…
A country like Spain has a formal system of grants and awards for athletes designated as "elite" and supports them roughly at the same pay as it supports junior university professors.
Calling the arxiv a vanity press shows you aren't a researcher. In math and physics all the best stuff is on the arxiv and the general level is well above the level of most journals. Journals mainly serve as…
It is capable of applying know heuristics and general principles in places where they haven't been applied and in this sense very much capable of generating conjectures in much the same way a person does. It's ability…
As a mathematician not expert kn these things, yes it scans as reasonable, and yes it has me and most of my colleagues reconsidering what we do for a living.
Sounds just like standard behavior for gaming incencyives in large institutions.
Institutions like Duke benefit enormously from having people like this around. They can claim they have lots of highly cited and well published researchers, a bit of controversy is free publicity, etc. They make money…
Part of running a profitable business is doing the right thing. Following socially obligated rules is a cost just like buying drywall. The profits at all cost mentality is a criminal mentality. Maybe it gets away with…
As a dual American-European (citizenship in both, lived in both) I celebrate the EU data privacy laws and lament the absolute lack of protection of data or privacy that prevails in the US. Because of US based websites…
ODB understood this dynamic years ago - "Wu Tang is for the children"
Instrumental education is less effective at producing innovation and utility than is basic education. Forgetting this is (and has been) destructive to universities.
One imagines they are far more worried about person X fraudulently claiming to be person Y than they are about occasionally causing problems for identical twins. Obviously the solution is to accompany facial recognition…
People on the street, so to speak, don't know better even in advanced nations with strong educational systems. Look how much rejection of vaccination there is in spite of "knowing better". In many African nations there…