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Making sense of AI and mathematics. Humanity ❤️

[Richard Behiel @RBehiel]

AI won’t discover new physics. It won’t happen.

It would be the best thing in human history if it were to happen, but the odds of it happening are 0%, because AI is fundamentally not the kind of thing that can do physics.

The asymptotic limit of AI is the ability to emulate a grad student who knows how to code simulations. And it got there already, a couple years ago. No progress since.

[basedmath @math_lore]

@RBehiel @ZyMazza @JK_Lundblad seems to be a bullseye analogy to me, and fully agree

[Scientific American @sciam]

In yet another sign of AI’s surging dominance over human minds, OpenAI recently claimed to solve one of math’s biggest questions: the Navier-Stokes problem. But now three mathematicians have showed OpenAI’s work dodges the question rather than solving it.
https://t.co/5Fbf4R460T

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@DrTimBarber @beffjezos Yes I do actually

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Science has always been driven by the desire to understand/explain the world. Mathematics is no different, it’s driven by the desire to understand the most fundamental parts of the world. Often solving a difficult problem involves new techniques, which are valuable for progress, but serve as general markers that progress (in a given direction) is being made.

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@kgrph25509 @DavidDeutschOxf Dog don’t understand. If you’re eager to be a slave to machines, and the small number of people who control them, then go for it…

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@StockViking @DavidDeutschOxf It’s not too far a stretch of the imagination, one which I could explain. But it seems you’re already determined to reject it.

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@SemDayy @elonmusk 💯

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@elonmusk Such a childish vision of what human life could be.

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Tao is truly a man of science, someone who cares that science, mathematics, and human prosperity continues. I still remember being inspired by his explanation of the cosmic distance ladder.

I can’t understand why people wouldn’t back him.

https://t.co/eAfpsxDr2q

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@CyberNatural_BC @DavidDeutschOxf And if they preferred wilderness instead of sky scrapers, they’d be wrong in their preference?

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@fimbres_paul @beffjezos @DrTimBarber What a mornic thing to say… You really are living up to your bio, “just here to exist”.

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@DavidDeutschOxf “They” are you, born in a different country, to a different situation. They have many struggles they wish to solve, it is true, and many parts of their way of life they wish to preserve.

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@DavidDeutschOxf David, with all due respect, would you respond the same to natives during the time of colonisation? Would you insist that they should adopt the new way of life all in the name of “progress/growth of knowledge”… Many, very many, people choose a simpler (more natural) way of life.

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@VahnAeris @beffjezos @DrTimBarber Oh… you’re an idiot

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@VahnAeris @beffjezos @DrTimBarber go back to basic literacy and learn to write properly

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@EbiThinks Taste

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@rynorhn One could argue that gain of function research in viruses is an excellent direction to “solve cancer”, so let’s pour a trillion into doing it as fast as possible? For the obvious reason, it should be properly done (regulated and aligned with humanities interest)

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@DeryaTR_ Of course! And while we’re at it, for the same reason, let’s do uncontrolled gain of function research as well, as fast as possible. What could go wrong?

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@beffjezos @DrTimBarber You have no idea who Tao is or what is “self-image” is. He’s a mathematician who is concerned about the future of his field, and is responding to serious misconduct by OpenAI