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A year of work by two Spanish mathematicians versus 88 hours and €15 million by OpenAI: ‘Without our idea, AI wouldn’t have solved it’ (english.elpais.com)
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[–] 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Stop attributing comprehension and agency

That's not what this is doing. At all. It's saying it produced a solution.

Edit: Y'all, mathematicians literally use deterministic algorithms called SAT solvers that solve the Boolean satisfiability problem. Saying an algorithm "solved" a math problem is not ascribing it comprehension or agency.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    It's the age of AI, words don't mean anything anymore. They only point to other words. The word "solve" may have a "definition" but that's irrelevant compared to how the word makes me feel.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago

    That's literally always been true. Humans are emotional speakers and use language that feels right more than we use language that factually accurate.

    The spicies have been trying to tell you this for decades.

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