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Even through the lack of ethics here and there and mistakes - I think the major headline is that talented people are collaborating with AI to achieve impressive results. It’s shrouded in competitive mistakes of judgment. But it’s an existence proof for collaborating with AI and achieving incredible things.

OpenAI says they just pointed the AI at the problem:

Regarding the level of human involvement on our end: although a group of people was involved in our efforts, we collectively had no research-level expertise in fluid dynamics and the Navier-Stokes problem, and therefore were unable to meaningfully contribute to the mathematical content.

https://x.com/SebastienBubeck/status/2097379415747342689

They needed the general direction and idea it might work from a few folks tinkering for a year with the same models that we all have access to. The majority of credit goes to them. The idea of where to look with AI is key. Models didn't do that by themselves.

Trust: https://x.com/__alpoge__

"since on my side things were mostly me and claude having a good time yoloing random stuff in the corner rather than anything institutional"

Not: https://x.com/SebastienBubeck

"If you don't want me to be nice, then I don't have to be nice." [when clearly there's not enough deference paid to where this line of research originated]

Also: https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf

I had planned to say on announcing our work that the results are not the important thing. Rather the important thing is instead the significance that a mathematician and an LLM model can now do all this work in a month

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