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They still are parrots. Just properly trained with a lot of data. Doesn’t make them not useful. But that’s what they are though.

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I interpret the word 'parrot' to mean incapable of creative or original thought. Solving a major maths problem that has resisted the best mathematicians for so long seems to prove otherwise (even if it were just a matter of remixing old ideas, which is not the case here).

What do they need to do for you to consider them non parrots, and do you consider a lot of humans as parrots?

Did it create the path to the solution, or just grab it from conversations with a researcher working on the problem?

Good question. I think we will know very soon, perhaps not for this particular math problem, but they just need to solve another one independently and we'll know for sure. My bet is that they can.

> Solving a major maths problem that has resisted the best mathematicians for so long seems to prove otherwise (even if it were just a matter of remixing old ideas, which is not the case here).

I don't think we know enough about how they work to claim that. OpenAI said they had 10 THOUSANDS agents working on the problem, testing all ideas they found in the literature (including, it seems, the breakthrough of the guys who had it for the hypo viscose case).

Yup. They have much more bandwidth to test things, but no original thoughts (and tbh, not thoughts at all, actually).

>creative or original thought.

If this can only answer questions, then it fails this test. Because at least the question has to come from somewhere...

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