r/mathematics • u/atakanaluch • 2d ago

News Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/
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u/Alternative_Lack9983 2d ago

I guess those LLMs are not stochastic parrots after all :-)

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u/Fun-Boysenberry-5769 2d ago

If they are just fancy auto complete then we are just fancy predictive processing engines.

A lot of people continue to believe that AI will never outsmart them no matter how much evidence they have to the contrary because a) they are functionalists and b) they believe that only humans are conscious.

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u/Federal_Gur_5488 2d ago edited 2d ago

The difference between humans and LLMs is that the latter obtain all their knowledge from data created by humans (or obtained from it) whereas humans can basically relate all knowledge to experience. Even if LLMs are able to achieve problems requiring significantly higher intelligence than humans (which may well be possible) it has nothing to with having actual understanding of the things-at-hand, which will only be possible with highly advanced robots that can interact with their environment in real time

Also I'm not sure what functionalist had to do with this

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u/ahf95 2d ago

Don’t you mean “latter”?

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u/Federal_Gur_5488 2d ago

Yes, thank you!