> we ask them to stop testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary models.
Maybe I'm alone on this, but for some reason these sorts of requests strike me as akin to gatekeeping how someone should breathe air. It's math... the numbers and symbols are just out there in the platonic realm available for anyone to do as they like with them. It's patently absurd to request other people to stop.
Ensuring credit where credit is due? That's fine. If your model incorporates the efforts of many others, then it's reasonable to request acknowledgement of everyone who contributed (even indirectly). But that's not what the request states — presumably their ask subsumes any advanced ML model, including those that weren't trained on a giant corpus of text.
To quote Noam Brown, "Our main focus is shipping great models so everyone can use them to make discoveries of their own" [1]. Spending 15 million dollars of compute with an internal model to blitz and scoop a resolution of Navier-Stokes that someone is already on track to resolve (or, from my understanding of why OpenAI did this, had already resolved, as staff at OpenAI stated their attempt was prompted by rumors of a resolution by Anthropic) is in complete opposition to this stated claim. That act is what this portion of the recommendation is in response to: OpenAI perpetually holding out internal models and tooling, using them to solve important problems in math, and thus themselves holding a monopoly on certain aspects of mathematics. Why is it absurd to ask people who are in a position to do an obviously damaging act to not do so, especially when those same people were the ones who asked for your advice in the first place and claimed to not want to do said act previously?
>was prompted by rumors of a resolution by Anthropic
reminds an old sci-fi story where top engineers were shown a video of a genius inventor who invented anti-gravity and unfortunately died while testing his apparatus which was clearly anti-gravitating in the video. Thus believing that it is a solved problem, just need to rediscover the lost solution, the engineers quickly developed anti-gravity. The original video happened to be a fake specially created for that purpose.
>thus themselves holding a monopoly on certain aspects of mathematics
Monopoly prevents others. In science me knowing something doesn't prevent others from obtaining the same knowledge, especially in math where any knowledge is just a result of thinking.
The math establishment is trying to bring into the math the rules and notions similar to those of the patent and trademark laws. Those attempts should be outright rejected.
throwaway713 · · focus · HN ↗
Maybe I'm alone on this, but for some reason these sorts of requests strike me as akin to gatekeeping how someone should breathe air. It's math... the numbers and symbols are just out there in the platonic realm available for anyone to do as they like with them. It's patently absurd to request other people to stop.
Ensuring credit where credit is due? That's fine. If your model incorporates the efforts of many others, then it's reasonable to request acknowledgement of everyone who contributed (even indirectly). But that's not what the request states — presumably their ask subsumes any advanced ML model, including those that weren't trained on a giant corpus of text.
isotypic · · focus · HN ↗
[1] <a href="https://x.com/polynoamial/status/2093451221273387477" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/polynoamial/status/2093451221273387477
trhway · · focus · HN ↗
reminds an old sci-fi story where top engineers were shown a video of a genius inventor who invented anti-gravity and unfortunately died while testing his apparatus which was clearly anti-gravitating in the video. Thus believing that it is a solved problem, just need to rediscover the lost solution, the engineers quickly developed anti-gravity. The original video happened to be a fake specially created for that purpose.
>thus themselves holding a monopoly on certain aspects of mathematics
Monopoly prevents others. In science me knowing something doesn't prevent others from obtaining the same knowledge, especially in math where any knowledge is just a result of thinking.
The math establishment is trying to bring into the math the rules and notions similar to those of the patent and trademark laws. Those attempts should be outright rejected.