PonziWang

I’m about to give a lecture to the Columbia Math Dept, but honestly I just wanna ask THE STUDENTS how they feel about AI frontrunning their life’s work & each other. 😂 Here’s what happened in plain English: 2 groups of mathematicians made a lifetime breakthrough one of the most famous problems that had gone unsolved for almost 100 years. But they only solved a much easier version of the problem w/lots of AI assistance, & then a false rumor went around that Anthropic had solved the problem because one of the authors was working at Anthropic lmao. So then OpenAI decided to frontrun them & spend $20 million of compute to solve the problem. 😏 And since it’s a famous problem there’s a $1M prize for it like the Nobel. Then the OpenAI dude told the group leader you can share the prize with us & we’ll even let you claim first authorship but you need to drop the name of your Anthropic coauthor from the paper. Then the group leader got mad because that’s super unethical & felt like they secretly used his ChatGPT data to figure out what he was working on to frontrun him. At least that’s the Anthropic perspective. The problem is so hard that the original two authors would’ve gotten a top math prize & generational prestige for just solving the easier version. But OpenAI just brute forced it while seemingly stealing their idea and being unethical and everything. If not for the drama the scientific achievement would’ve been comparable to curing a form of cancer in their field‼️ But instead no one’s questioning that it got solved, & instead it devolved into this shitshow. 😌 Now a lot of mathematicians are saying the hardest problems that they spend a lifetime working on are gonna get solved in a year or two. 🙃 And some mathematicians are now saying it’s like doping and they should ban using AI on some types of problems to “maintain the challenge.”