I'm happy to announce the launch of Acorn, a new theorem prover that includes an integrated AI.
Theorem provers let you write mathematical proofs that are rigorously verified. But they are notoriously difficult to use. Acorn makes it easier, by using AI to fill in the details.
@JI Yeah, I believe it. The LLMs seem like a super tempting way to trick yourself into believing you understand things better than you do. Or just to delay an inevitable F rather than coming to terms with it early and changing course.
Entertained by professor Garcia here.
1. Claims he is a "strong, strong opponent" of curving a class so that only a limited number of students can get A's
2. Fails 35% of the students in CS 10, saying they all deserve to fail
https://t.co/SSmFEZ854o
I liked this piece... but I felt like it dodged the most interesting questions, by focusing on "is AI conscious".
What would it be like if AI became better at writing than humans?
I'll admit, it's quite hard for me to imagine that world. But I think Ted Chiang could imagine it.
@thomasfbloom this would be a really fantastic outcome, right? so why worry so much about, we must make sure that AI and human mathematics are aligned. isn't it more important to try to make these marvelous things happen in the first place, regardless of the method?
@IlinVasily29521 It looks pretty neat! I wonder, how do you plan on updating Lean versions? Just have an LLM do it for everything at once, and figure that will probably work?
@tlbtlbtlb@rsdgpt Yeah, I have a lot of experience of that from Parse 😜 If you want to be really safe, you can use a read-only replica, but for smaller teams it’s probably fine.
@samth@QiaochuYuan What if an AI invents some new mathematics and there is no human "within the mathematical community" who deserves any credit for it?
@hkarthik Tough when California is 17% Asian, the UC system is 50% Asian, and so much of California politics is race-based. Purely anecdotally based on observing groups of kids, I wonder if the politics will change next gen due to booming multi-ethnic population
A really interesting document. My takeaways:
1. the UC student body is about:
20% Hispanic
50% Asian
25% white
5% other
2. Despite all the arguments, laws, and rule changes, that only changed a few % over the past 10 years
One motivation to ban SAT/ACT in UC admissions was to eliminate perceived bias against black and latino students.
But the biggest shift by banning the SAT was a transfer of admit seats from Asian students to white: https://t.co/MUDsL2CSk1
E->F, rows 12-19.
@hkarthik See: https://t.co/HtlEHOR6bW Section 3.1.2: black 4-year graduation rate is 60% compared to asian 80%. Also 3.1.6 has stats for transfers, which are 65% to graduate on time. So, I think the community college route is actually *less* merit based, more political.
@Vjeux interesting. i want to try having it build a whole game engine - like a cli/json version of the game. then it’s entirely separate challenges, one is building a faithful model, two is playing