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We mere mortals (I am a prof. of Maths at Uni) do not.
Just that. Tell my Uni to pay me 200€/month for tokens. They are just going to laugh it out.
Here’s one of the smarted guys who’s walked the earth, and out of his historical peers, he’ll be part of the first generation with big brains AND to have tools to give literal superhuman abilities.
Come on… TT doesn’t care about a little money for a biased plug. He could literally knock on the doors of Renascence Technologies and walk in with a straight face say “give me 1% of the Medallion Fund, I start today, an office with a nice window if possible”. And it would still come off charming like he always is.
I think we can all be a bit grounded and understand reality as we see it -- one of the smartest living mathematicians is using an important invention. Not necessary to believe in any conspiracy theory.
If that means that researchers like Tao have to work as consultants or adjuncts to OpenAI or other model developers, well... that's what the American people voted for when they elected Trump.
To clarify there was nothing like that in my comment above.
Quid pro quo or not, he got paid to say what he's already been saying for the last few years.
In that case, the anti-AI Luddite arguments are maximally impeached, since they are motivated by fear of personal disaster. Tao doesn't need AI to succeed; the Luddites desperately need it to fail. So they are willing to say anything, jumping right to ad hominem arguments when they lack any real substantive rebuttal.