‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop

3 days ago by Mustachius_Grumpius to c/technology

Careers upended overnight, academics will have to separate solutions from slop while OpenAI moves on.
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CoconutLove 17 points 2 days ago

This is the paradox of AI.. generate lots of plausibly good sounding material, but you need a human to spend loads of time validating it. Software is already going through this issue.

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eyesaremosaics 5 points 2 days ago

Then you're getting into the infinite monkey theorem, and one important part is that for the random monkeys to create works of art like Shakespeare you also need a reviewer to determine when the output is interesting, in that case you are really shifting the burden of creativity onto the reviewer

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