Norion said:
But it wasn't in any data since no mathematicians had been able to come to that conclusion so not only did it produce something original for the field of mathematics, it's so advanced that only full on PHD level experts in math would be able to produce something that high quality. I understand scepticism here since it sounds wild but there is actually reasoning involved. They don't just predict what the next thing is supposed to be, nowadays they have internal thought processes that they use while examining data to come to their own conclusions. Here's a link that shows the thought process of the model as it tackled the problem so you can see for yourself. Basically if it was just predicting what comes next and wasn't doing any thinking it wouldn't have been able to successfully do what it did since it's something original no one had ever done before in math. |
Reading into this case, apparently human collaboration was needed for this result; the AI essentially brute forces possible solutions, in this case reaching a new one not through spontaneous or creative thought, but simply by persevering down a path the mathematician who coined the problem didn't think was worth the time and effort to explore.
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/checking-the-math-behind-openai-and
This kind of application has its uses, but it's not really the same thing as original thought, it's more akin to how water in a maze will find the way through without needing to "think".
