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Comment by saberience

15 hours ago

It's interesting to theoretical mathematicians only, for anyone else it's just noise which doesn't affect our practical day to day reality at all.

In fact, every one of the results is basically just novelty crap as far as the world goes.

Let me know when AI discovers the cure to cancer or aging etc.

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nl  14 hours ago

> novelty crap

I for one think understanding more about how the world operates is just about the highest calling possible.

> when AI discovers the cure to cancer or aging etc.

A guy I knew did this. It successfully shrunk cancer tumours in his dog: https://www.the-scientist.com/chatgpt-and-alphafold-help-des...

Graph theory (which the OpenAI math results had many proofs in) is directly applicable to cancer modelling and drug design.

But sure. Novelty crap.

  • saberience  14 hours ago

    None of these graph theory results lead to any applications in the real world.

    But sure, let me know when they do. I'll be waiting.

    I'm not sure how you define "knowing how the world works", but knowing that a very very niche algorithm upper bounds that we thought was x^100 and now we now it's x^99, isn't that interesting. It doesn't really tell us much more about the world and it doesn't have any applications for our day to day lives.