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I just keep on wondering, since the only good news coming out of OpenAI lately is hard science related:

Does having the LLM best tuned for science keep OpenAI in place to be more valuable than Anthropic and xAI whose products are tuned for respectively coding and undressing women?

146 sats \ 3 replies \ @gmd 13 Feb

most of this science / math stuff seems pretty obscure and not all that lucrative...

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209 sats \ 2 replies \ @nkmg1c 14 Feb

Obscure discoveries can lead to practical applications though. It's still impressive that it did work that might be expected of a grad student, at least.

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166 sats \ 1 reply \ @gmd 14 Feb

Oh it's absolutely impressive, much more so than coding capabilities. I can understand most of coding / algorithms but I can't even understand the questions that these AIs are answering in math and physics...

Just not clear to me how it will lead to profits- I don't think the AI that discovers a new physics phenomenon will own the practical applications of those discoveries...

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Their TOC explicitly states that the user is responsible for both input and output. They must do this or they'd be liable for output.

No risk, no reward

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If that's their business model, they haven't chosen the market with the largest number of users, that's for sure~~

I read recently that a lot of the math stuff news from openAI was not really new science. E.g. with the erdos problems, it turned out to be problems with forgotten solutions that chatgpt had unearthed again.

A recent paper this week with never before published problems was posted to challenge chatgpt at truly tackling new science. Will have to look for it. Or i guess I'll just wait to be notified of the outcome of this challenge.

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I think that it's the thing they don't get meaningful competition on simply because there is no one with that kind of funding that wants to solve science problems.

What's ironic is that that outcome, though pretty much undesired judging by other efforts that seem to be haunted by failures, is more in line with the non-profit structure it started as than the financial atrocity it is at the moment.

As much as I dislike Sam Altman, I still hope they're going to make some comebacks.

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