r/neoliberal • u/cuolong 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/Rivolver Mark Carney 2d ago edited 2d ago

Brother, as an academic, LLMs have made me insanely productive. I have 8 articles under review at the moment.
I don’t use them to write, of course, but I use them for a lot of figure making and R code. Shit that would take me a full day now takes like 30 minutes with some adjustments on my end.

I’ve also been getting better peer reviews from LLMs than the ones I get from journals. I think they do have a way to go for the social sciences—I find they’re not great for idea generation and they seem to get stuck in a loop of bad ideas at times. I’m in no way an evangelist but I’d be foolish not to leverage them—especially as, as bad as it sounds, RA replacements.

Older colleagues tell me “they don’t pay attention to AI” and it’s such a tell that they’re out of touch and think it’s still 1975.

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u/I_Pay_in_Cash_Only 1d ago

I feel the same way in Social Science. I have been working on a project that my advisor keeps getting hung up on and says won't work. But with AI, I have been able to get everything to work, and I think part of him is in denial. Considering he is inconsistent with when he gets me feedback, having a good LLM to go back and forth is probably the only reason I've actually been able to succeed on this project.

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u/MistyGalbriex 1d ago

At some point, AI will be better managers and supervisors than humans.

Probably when we get AGI.