Comment by Dilettante_
4 days ago
>Why is that less exciting?
Because if I have to throw 10000 rocks to get one in the bucket, I am not as good/useful of a rock-into-bucket-thrower as someone who gets it in one shot.
People would probably not be as excited about the prospect of employing me to throw rocks for them.
If you don't have automatic way to verify solution then picking correct answer from 10 000 is more impressive than coming with some answer in the first place. If AI tech will be able to effectively prune tree search without eval that would be super big leap but I doubt they achieved this.
It’s exciting because nearly all humans have 0% chance of throwing the rock into the bucket, and most people believed a rock-into-bucket-thrower machine is impossible. So even an inefficient rock-into-bucket-thrower is impressive.
But the bar has been getting raised very rapidly. What was impressive six months ago is awful and unexciting today.
You're putting words in my mouth. It's not "awful and unexciting", it is certainly an important step, but the hype being invited with the headline is the immensely greater one of an accurate rock-thrower. And if they have the inefficient one and trying to pretend to have the real deal, that's flim-flam-man levels of overstatement.