Comment by arctic-true
1 day ago
That tells me very little. What was the cost to OpenAI in dollars? What differentiates the high-cost problems from the low-cost problems? And that’s before you consider that OpenAI has strong incentives to downplay its costs while emphasizing its results. A one-liner in a write-up doesn’t change the fact that they have access to massive resources.
In a couple short years we've moved from "AIs can't do anything useful" to "they're lying about the actual cost of the innovative breakthroughs!".
I know that the former and the latter may be discrete subsets of the anti-AI crowd, but come on.
It’s very typical in human math that explaining the final result after years of searching looks very simple too.