Top mathematicians are outraged by OpenAI's methods

boredatoms

https://archive.ph/baq6d

puttycat

Quite appalling to open a "journalistic" report by ridiculising the people you report on: > Not since Socrates complained that the written word might make people lazy about remembering things has there been such an outpouring of angst against a new technology in the world of academia.

tomhow

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662371 .

garganzol

Ego is insulted, they're raging but it changes nothing. Math is beautiful exactly because it discerns right from wrong with 100% accuracy, while all the emotions and "flexible interpretations" are redirected to /dev/null.

jbs789

> Despite its length, the paper contains little of the explanation that mathematicians typically provide when sharing a new discovery. Classic

lherron

From the outside it seems like these mathematicians are saying “you shouldn’t use ai to solve our most difficult problems because they have no practical value”. Seems ok by me, let’s point all the gpu clusters at things that actually matter and let the math folks math.

johnsmith1840

Watching people who have built their entire identity around being untouchably smart suddenly be confronted with the future that children will be able to solve the equivalent of millenium prize level math in an afternoon for 5$ is enjoyable.