Plus it is an unfair standard since so many scientists in the past have been caught unethically using the work of others without attribution (and so many more have been accused).
In history we also repeatedly see the phenomenon of multiple discovery or simultaneous invention. If that happens to AI because the topic is pregnant, would you call it "plagiarism" just to disparage AI? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery
How is it an unfair standard. OpenAI stole the work of others to build the AI. That's not different than scientists stealing from other works as their own, or artists copying others work as their own, etc. It's all plagarism. I'm applying the same standard for everybody.
As for multiple discovery, this is a thing, but I don't think the AI did a parallel discovery any more than Ray Kroc made the parallel discovery of the MacDonald brother's speedee service system.
I just view it as a thing that can brute force and produce outputs - that it has no way of ‘knowing’ - but doesn’t need to since it’s just running off of probability.
No human can compete in that contest. But no llm can compete in the contest of ‘understanding’ and application in the real world - which is where 99% of the value is.
I’m very pro AI long term btw but I’m not blinded.
Brute force would have been solving Navier-Stokes in 88 hours after plagiarizing all known 20th century math
When it needs to snoop live on what the actual mathematicians are working on that’s something else
Trust me I've seen it happen to myself. I no longer trust ChatGPT.
I can see right through his act. Altman is one devious f8k.
But when the building-block ideas are still being formed, I'm not sure that AI is good at forming them.
There are many actions being performed today that can be nicely packaged.
Im already working on such a project.