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Yoav Goldberg addresses distinctions between improvements to mathematical bounds on hard problems and determinations of optimal solutions in Erdős constructions during an exchange on large language models

OpenAI researcher Tomek Korbak quote-tweeted Goldberg on next-token prediction.

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OPTomek Korbak#1178Tomek Korbak@TOMEKKORBAK

also guys technically those llms are just predicting the next token

10:53 PM · May 20, 2026 View on X
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this is not a diss on openai-internal, its a diss on erdos. making progress on a very hard problem is still very impressive. even if this problem is useless math.

5:51 AM · May 21, 2026 · 2.3K Views
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