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bling @blingdivinity · 17h root complaint sounds like: truth and understanding used to be bundled as one job. now ai finds the truth and and humans are left producing understanding. but nobody funds understanding without the prestige of new truths. so we get undigestible slop proofs that dont advance broader mathematics or science. so theres a tractable fix: reweight prestige towards understanding-generation. [quoted post] Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ · 19h Twenty-five Fields Medal winners have published a joint declaration warning about what they see as a severe misalignment between AI companies and the mathematics community. [embedded document image] A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics Over the last few months, the mathematical capabilities of LLMs have improved dramatically, to the point that they can solve major outstanding problems in many fields of mathematics. However, the push by AI companies to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics, and to the mathematical community. The goals of the AI companies and the goals of the mathematical community are severely misaligned. We see these as part of broader alignment issues impacting other scientific and creative professions, as well as the whole of society.
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Quote-tweet by bling reframing the problem as truth and understanding having been bundled as one job, with the proposed fix to reweight prestige toward understanding-generation; quotes Andrew Curran's post about a joint declaration by twenty-five Fields Medal winners, 'A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics'.
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