Nobody serious would deny this is incredible progress, but GP is making an unmotivated leap to RSI, so I respond to that framing. It’s an interesting argument to be had but I suspect few of us have standing to say one way or the other.
(Gesturing at the number of problems solved, or the number of years the problem was open for, isn’t an argument.)
In fact, every one of the results is basically just novelty crap as far as the world goes.
Let me know when AI discovers the cure to cancer or aging etc.
I for one think understanding more about how the world operates is just about the highest calling possible.
> when AI discovers the cure to cancer or aging etc.
A guy I knew did this. It successfully shrunk cancer tumours in his dog: https://www.the-scientist.com/chatgpt-and-alphafold-help-des...
Graph theory (which the OpenAI math results had many proofs in) is directly applicable to cancer modelling and drug design.
But sure. Novelty crap.
But sure, let me know when they do. I'll be waiting.
I'm not sure how you define "knowing how the world works", but knowing that a very very niche algorithm upper bounds that we thought was x^100 and now we now it's x^99, isn't that interesting. It doesn't really tell us much more about the world and it doesn't have any applications for our day to day lives.