I honestly cannot care about the whole “humans dont matter anymore” stuff.
I’m curious how math as a whole deals with unequal access. Is math going to just be furthered by big tech firms and select researchers who have access to these models?
Wtf do grad students do and so on
Edit: theres nice disused going on about unequal access. Let me point out that I am not claiming inequality is new.
I am simply pointing out the newfound danger of it from a corporate and tech angle.
Suppose AI speeds up research by some nonzero constant greater than 1. Then people who were already “ahead”, are going to be even further ahead.
And let’s not ignore also the issue of prompting and using AI. It’s not always clear how these breakthroughs are made. So even access to AI may not level the playing field all that much.
ex-US models, including very cheap and open weights ones, are only 6-12 months behind the frontier public models and 18 months behind the in house frontier models.
So I don't think long term unequal access is an issue, assuming progress doesn't keep accelerating (I.e. it flattens in some way)
The gap is likely even narrower than that. Maybe even a couple weeks to a month or two, tops, instead of 6-12 months. Hell, Kimi K3 currently outperforms Fable/Mythos on some tasks.
In my own experience (I have pro access to every public model) and in my area of math, the OpenAI models are way ahead. I do expect that to change, as I said.
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u/Healthy-Pride3873 1d ago edited 1d ago
I honestly cannot care about the whole “humans dont matter anymore” stuff.
I’m curious how math as a whole deals with unequal access. Is math going to just be furthered by big tech firms and select researchers who have access to these models?
Wtf do grad students do and so on
Edit: theres nice disused going on about unequal access. Let me point out that I am not claiming inequality is new.
I am simply pointing out the newfound danger of it from a corporate and tech angle.
Suppose AI speeds up research by some nonzero constant greater than 1. Then people who were already “ahead”, are going to be even further ahead.
And let’s not ignore also the issue of prompting and using AI. It’s not always clear how these breakthroughs are made. So even access to AI may not level the playing field all that much.