• Communist
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    3 days ago

    I don’t know what you mean, I wasn’t the one who claimed they couldn’t do something they clearly can.

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      3 days ago

      You are the one collapsing tool use into a binary when there are varying degrees of competency and hand holding.

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        3 days ago

        I am not, you inaccurately said that the math olympiad was not bested by llm’s because they had a tool that told them if they were close but incorrect and can just try an infinite number of times. This is incorrect, they had a number of tries with python. This just isn’t a true statement. I think them besting it with use of python is equally significant and still counts as them besting it, and saying they can’t do math work is absurd.

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          2 days ago

          It’s not “bested” by the LLM though, a mathematician used the LLM as a tool to disprove a conjecture. Subtract the mathematicians from the process and the LLM would not have successfully completed the task. It would be more accurate to say a mathematician with an LLM was able to best a mathematician who did not have an LLM. Which is cool, but we don’t need to pretend the LLM is not a tool but something that “understands” math like a mathematician

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            2 days ago

            You’re confusing the olympiad with the erdos conjecture. This is just really not true, they just asked it and it found a solution, the mathmatician then used its solution as inspiration to create a better one. It still essentially did it on its own, and they certainly do the olympiad on their own.

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              2 days ago

              The description that the LLM did it on its own is subjective at best. I’ll just leave it at that. Have a good one