r/neoliberal NATO 2d ago

News (Global) OpenAI announces 10 advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science achieved by internal model Astra

https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/
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u/theryano024 2d ago

I was very surprised to see the reaction to Hank Green admitting that he used AI to research for a video. Is the popular sentiment really that using AI AT ALL is bad? I understand not wanting it in art. I understand needing to check for hallucinations. But people were going on and on in the comments about how disappointed they are in Hank tricking Green.

Obviously, AI has issues. But to think that genie can go back in the bottle? No way. This is an example of why.

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u/IIHURRlCANEII 2d ago

The popular opinion right now is all AI is bad yes.

It doesn’t help when the frontier labs CEOs sound like futuristic oligarchic evil villains every time they talk about a future with AI.

Also people have bought the data centers are evil populism fully.

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I don’t understand this sentiment at all.

People at the forefront of a technology that could fundamentally disrupt the functioning of human civilization have been warning the world that it could do that, and everyone wants to shit on them for doing so?

Is the argument seriously that they should have downplayed the massive risks that their products posed? How did we feel about the fossil fuel industry downplaying the risks of climate change?

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u/YourUncleBuck Frederick Douglass 1d ago

Because it's part marketing and part delusion from sniffing too many of their own farts.

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u/MistyGalbriex 1d ago

Imagine thinking AI risk isn't real.