Sam Altman's statement on the Navier-Stokes dispute(twitter.com)
20 pointsby vertigoruntime2 hours ago4 comments
  • Sol-an hour ago
    I think the personal drama aside, the moral of the story is: If you are working on an interesting breakthrough in any domain amenable to AI-supported solutions, make sure to keep it secret, lest a more well-resourced party (in particular the leading AI firms) will try to front-run you on the results by throwing millions of compute at it.

    I guess (pure) mathematics will eventually be left alone, since own its own it is not economically valuable and OpenAI and Anthropic will eventually not need it any more for publicity, leaving the normal researcher alone to pick up AI-supported crumbs again.

    But this also doesn't bode well for other domains. I think these are the clear signs of power concentration in the hands of the AI labs. All future progress will go through them, and if it doesn't, it's only because they graciously let you and decided not to scoop you first.

  • ilalexan hour ago
    what happened to the lowercase letters in his writing? was this generated by cgpt?
  • jonathanstrangean hour ago
    That sounds a lot to me like a lie.
  • vrganj2 hours ago
    "The guy that works for me is great, everything is a coincidence, we were just trying to be generous, of course we're acting with integrity and would never do anything bad." - the least surprising CEO PR statement ever.
    • cbarnes99an hour ago
      He also decided that it was appropriate to say "The team threatened us with unfounded accusations of plagarism." Which has to be the absolute height of irony on both the counts of plagiarism and threats given that OpenAI has effectively admitted to likely plagiarism with their deliberate non-answers, and explicitly admitted to threatening them.