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OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again (www.wired.com)

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[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 99 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Several employees within OpenAI believe their technology has rendered math dead anyway, according to people who have spoken with them.

They do believe a lot of things about their magic word machine.

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[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 month ago

Reminds me of the Mechanicus in 40k. “We just worship the machine and it does what we want it to. How does it work? No one knows!”

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 1 month ago

they trying to live vicariously through other more successful people in that subject, by projecitng.

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[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 11 points 1 month ago

Wait, it can finally count how many letters are in a word?

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