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Don't Be Fooled by this Summer of AI Hype

41 points · 37 comments · jacquesm

  1. square_usual · · focus · HN ↗
    Why should anyone listen to Timnit Gebru or Emily Blender after how consistently they've been wrong about everything? What insight or value do they bring to this?
    1. dgellow · · focus · HN ↗
      What have they been wrong about? What is wrong in the article?
      1. tim333 · · focus · HN ↗
        Not straight factually wrong but they try to give the impression that the models performance in maths is not a big deal but have you looked at the kind of maths they are actually doing? It's way above your average human probably in the top 0.1% or 0.01%

        check out the Frontier Math Tier 4 examples <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;epoch.ai&#x2F;frontiermath&#x2F;tiers-1-4&#x2F;benchmark-problems" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;epoch.ai&#x2F;frontiermath&#x2F;tiers-1-4&#x2F;benchmark-problems which GPT 6.1 just got 100% at. Up from 5% for Claude 4.5 last year say. And probably 0% for me although I was quite good at maths at uni.

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