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Even funnier that it wouldn't even be the first time that happens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman
by c7b 6d ago
Even funnier that it wouldn't even be the first time that happens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman
- thrance 6d agoAnd he also gave up his trophy, which is displayed in a random corridor of a random math museum in Paris, where visitors pass by without looking, lacking most, if not all, of the context. Only because I knew the story and the man did I recognize the object for what it was.
- peacefullmind 6d agowhere is it displayed , in which museum ? As a mathematician it would be cool to visit it, but I can't find anything on google.
- yen223 6d agoIt's very likely that no one will claim any of the cash prizes, which is funny to me
- jgalt212 6d agoNot including salaries, OpenAI spend $20MM to make $1MM. Very on-brand for a start-up.
- jacobrussell 6d agoI don’t think solving a millennium prize problem can be reduced to some DoorDash economics of “spent Y to make X.” What if it took someone their entire professional career to solve one of these problems, would it not be worth it by the same logic?
- jgalt212 6d agoOf course, you're right. I was making social commentary / joke.
- program_whiz 6d agoSurprisingly this is actually rather fitting in terms of time scale. When you consider it took ~10,000 agents 88 hours, or 880,000 hours to solve. That's 14.5 years in agent time of continuous 365/24/7 processing. Of course, humans solve things much more efficiently (and didn't also need the massive pre-training of every expert on the planet for 1,000,000,000 human years equivalent). But yeah, human researchers can solve a problem like this in a decade or so, while sleeping, teaching, traveling, and taking breaks, only working a few hours a day on the idea.
- nomel 6d agoHow many people have worked on this problem? How many have failed? How many hours total?
- taneq 5d ago> But yeah, human researchers can solve a problem like this in a decade or so None of them did, though, despite how many tried. So empirically, it seems unreasonable to say human researchers can solve ‘problems like this’.
- eru 5d agoWell, I guess we can say that human researchers have a certain probability of solving problems like this?
- soperj 6d agoHe did it because he had principals. OpenAI the opposite.
- MarkusQ 6d agoMore likely it's because a million dollars one way or the other won't make a difference in the hole they are digging / mountain they are building.
- pwdisswordfishq 6d agoHe had principals, while OpenAI had agents?