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Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met

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  1. hatthew · · focus · HN ↗
    My comment about humanity's last exam being a misnomer is included, and I proposed better ideas about what a last exam could look like. One of the things I said was "solve an open math problem" which has conclusively been done with Navier-Stokes (regardless of the controversy surrounding that). However, in the spirit of clarifying the goalposts, AI has only passed 1/6 of the tests I proposed. 17% is not a passing grade, so I'd say no, my challenge has not been met.

    Another thing to note is that the (presumably AI-generated) summary of my challenge does not accurately represent what I wrote, listing only half the things I said and saying "or" rather than "and".

    1. an0malous · · focus · HN ↗
      How can you say it’s conclusively been done if it might have been stolen from a math researcher and was aided in unknown ways by a whole team of math researchers? I find it mind boggling that HN just accepts these shenanigans with no transparency. At the very least, they could share the conversation / thinking trace easily and if their claims are true there shouldn’t be anything controversial or negative for their company in the trace.
      1. senordevnyc · · focus · HN ↗
        Yeah, they could easily just share the untold trillions of tokens the 10k agents generated over 88 hours, which would also be a goldmine for their competitors, no big deal.

        I find it mind boggling that anyone thinks these agents only solved this problem because they maybe could possibly have seen the unfinished work of researchers who were working on a simpler version of the problem, (also with AI).

        Looking forward to the cope when the next big problem falls.

        1. dormento · · focus · HN ↗
          > Yeah, they could easily just share the untold trillions of tokens the 10k agents generated over 88 hours, which would also be a goldmine for their competitors, no big deal.

          I hope I'm not being too blunt, but the other alternative is to "just trust me bro" the hyperscalers, who are pretty much locked into a battle for profitability and have all the incentives to make up things to prop up their stock, no? I don't think this is the way.

          1. pessimizer · · focus · HN ↗
            AI can't be a religion if you don't attack with fire the people for whom "just trust me bro" isn't good enough. "Just Trust Them, Bros!" is the central tenet.
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