And why cannot they have someone associated with Anthropic as co-author? That’s not obvious at all. For sure they would prefer to be the only ones, but it’s pretty standard to have co-authors from different companies, even if they are technically competitors. What is inappropriate about it?
replybecause it severely dilutes the PR value.
replyIf writing up the paper would involve using OpenAI's unreleased model, neither OpenAI nor Anthropic would be happy about Alpöge having that access.
replywould edit my comment but it's been a few hours
reply> but it’s pretty standard to have co-authors from different companies
that's only true for papers that are not millenium problem solutions
in another world this could have been a beautiful collaboration
replyIt's inappropriate if you're a sociopath.
replyIIRC that happened with evolution. In the initial presentation of Darwin and Wallace's work on evolution (presented with their consent by someone else) Wallace was described as the primary author since he was planning to publish first.
replyOf course, no one understood that presentation so it was Darwin's later book that everyone remembers
Holy late capitalism. Everything revolves around line-go-up, and sociopaths rule the show. These people cannot even collaborate like civilised scientists on one of the most famous open problems in mathematics?
reply“It would be simpler if Levent was not an Anthropic employee” I cannot believe this shit.
Soon Levent will just be turned into soylent and he will have never been an Anthropic employee. We still need some progress here though.
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