@chrszegedy
#deeplearning, #ai research scientist. Opinions are mine.
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A user frames the choice around how an AI’s intelligence compares with their own.
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A post argues that training AI for elegant proofs would be far easier than teaching it to produce valid ones.
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A post describing a Meta paper says the model uses a network of associative memories instead of standard attention.
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A post argues most AI progress measures tracked exponential growth in 2023–2026, while capital spending grew slightly super-exponentially.
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A poster says they expect economic effects over the next two years if AI is paused for 10 years.
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A user shared the statement; another criticized people they said were attacking it while defending OpenAI.
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A user wonders what Gary Marcus thinks of the bet now and says they saved screenshots from a seemingly deleted thread.
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AcerFur used the line while quoting an earlier post, without explaining what “it” refers to.
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A researcher recalls three attendees claiming a speaker’s work had been done a few, 10 and 20 years earlier.
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OpenAI says it drew on an independent mathematics advisory group’s advice about how to release the results.
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In an exchange on X, tszzl argued mechanistic interpretability is a minimum requirement for turning AI alignment into an engineering discipline. Neel Nanda joked about the tradeoff, and Geoffrey Irving pushed back on calling any current subfield necessary.
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Elon Musk used the phrase ‘biological bootloader’; another poster recalled him linking a similar view from Larry Page to starting OpenAI.
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A post quotes AI as a 'superhuman specialist' that's 'sub-human at running itself,' then speculates about what that gap could lead to.
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A user calls the predicted wait the “Navier-Stokes effect,” saying Nobel committees won’t consider them for prizes anytime soon.
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A user asked the AIs to budget for a family of four starting on $150,000 gross income and calculate inflation from 2006 to 2026.
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A user also claims Astra solved five Erdős problems, two under budget.
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A user endorses Kevin Buzzard’s proposal to let machines explore math, then begin the journey toward wherever they get stuck.
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The author says one of their main recommendations is to post results as quickly as possible—meaning once certain minimum standards have been met.
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One post argues that no technology in history has accumulated more “hacks” faster than AI.
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One participant argues that generative architectures, especially those producing discrete symbols, are ill-suited to understanding reality. A reply offers floating-point numbers and transformer-based video generators as counterarguments.