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"Breakthrough" to me would be like Isaac Newton inventing calculus to calculate pi. This feels more like $12MM in tokens was spent to add another digit to pi using the old way.

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Inventing calculus to calculate pi? I don't think that ever happened...

Trust me bro that's how things went down

I'm not sure if you meant it this way, but this is more an insult directed at mathematics, not openAI.

That would be an incorrect interpretation

I thought as much- my point is that as AI capabilities continue to expand, AI skeptics inadvertently and ironically end up belittling the humans they presumably hold in high esteem vs. the "cold machines" that aren't capable of true thought or creativity. When one says that solving a Millennium prize problem is not impressive, one is essentially demeaning practically all mathematicians and the field of mathematics itself.

Yeah solving a Millennium Problem is totally equivalent to calculating another digit of pi.

Its called an analogy

It's one of the seven most important problems in mathematics.

Pick a better analogy.

If you want to be pedantic it’s one of the 7 problems a specific institute considers to be the most important in mathematics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems

(Not that I think the comparison to pi digits make sense)

are we really moving the goalpost after solving Millenium Prize Problem? Six years ago that would be something, but today let's move the goalpost

Willing to bet if an AI next cures a cancer people here will go “that wasn’t the most dangerous type of cancer so it is meaningless”.

If anything I'm diminishing the importance of calculus and pi by comparing it to this bullshit

It's a really bad analogy then. So bad that it's hard to find an analogy describing how bad it is :)

GP is saying it’s not a very good one.

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