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Deep Questions with Cal Newport — Did AI Just “Solve” Math? (Let’s Take a Closer Look) | AI Reality Check
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Did AI Just “Solve” Math? (Let’s Take a Closer Look) | AI Reality Check

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News. Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia (0:00) Did AI just “solve” math? (2:38) What OpenAI did (6:30) Question #1 - Is this result that important? (7:34) Question #2 - Does this mean LLMs are now smarter than human mathematicians? (17:50) Question…

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exaggerations from OpenAI / Anthropic will only hurt workers short-term and then come back to hurt the trust in what A.I. can do long-term

@aosamai · YouTube comment

There are a number of cases like the one Cal explained where long-held assumptions have not been properly questioned that AI could help out with. For example, the assumption about airborne pathogens that fooled scientists into thinking Covi…

@scottnash70 · YouTube comment

So once again it was a brute force method? But touted as if it required human ingenuity

@matrinoxtm · YouTube comment

This definitely isn't the first time that computation was essential in mathematical progress. The classification of simple finite groups was completed over a number of years with the help of brute-force computation, and the actual proof too…

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