Comment by grog454
12 hours ago
> We have now seen that even the rumor of someone working on a problem can trigger a massive amount of AI-powered effort to flatten it before the original research project has time to reach its full potential.
In other words, the "right" people need to solve it: the mathematicians who made it their job and not the people working to push AI models forward?
Struggling to understand how a solution to a millennium problem like this isn't a net positive. Presumably Open AI employs mathematicians in these efforts anyway. And I can think of far worse uses of the AI compute resources.
If there are no incentives for mathematicians to work on and share progress in tough problems because they will get scooped, then they will end up quitting and in net we will see less progress overall.
Mathematicians can join the club like the rest of us.
Time to consider re-training to become a nurse, electrician, auto mechanic, or a plumber.
> In other words, the "right" people need to solve it: the mathematicians who made it their job and not the people working to push AI models forward?
This is not at all what he said? I'm not sure how you got this from anything he wrote, actually.