This new paper is also relevant https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19804 . I imagine the authors are having a little fun with the word "resolve" in the abstract, meaning either resolve or re-solve.
I do want to point out that Mark Sellke did not start the tweeting chain. He quoted the initiating tweet that was not misleading, and in that context his tweet wasn't misleading either. However, twitter truncates quotes to one level, so when his tweet was quoted by followup tweets, the original context was lost.
I agree. I don't think Sellke or Bloom were bad actors, and they did their best to clarify what was happening. But in this boom where there's so much money at stake, you can't even work on cute math problems in peace anymore.
It's the singularity. Of hype and hysteria amplified through social networks algorithms.
I dread a transition from artificial superhuman intelligence to artificial hyper-human intelligence, then possibly artificial ultra-human intelligence.
We must draw the line somewhere! I'll sign any petition calling for a ban on artificial supercalifragilisticexpialidocious intelligence. I hope the pope, alt-right leadership, progressive bureaucrats, four-star generals, British royalty, social media influencers, Nobel laureates, and the Dalai Lama will join in. Amazingly, this is not the start of a joke involving going to a bar, but the reality of our times.
It's a bit brutal on my friends and coauthors, but I see the point. Lost lore and willful forgetting sound so medieval. That, too, is in sync with our times.
While I was studying martingales from Ross’ Stochastic processes textbook about 2 months ago, I could not see where the conditional independence or something like that is used in a proof of a lemma. In such dire situations, I tend to ask a knowledgeable friend and get a thoughtful response if all goes right. Unfortunately, I could not find a knowledgeable friend in this topic and taken the screenshot and posted it to chatgpt (free version). It has very quickly and kindly explained what I am missing out and the explanation was all correct. So, I cannot say that it is pushing the barriers of human knowledge; but, that conversation agent helped me to push my personal barriers and learn something new. This is what research advisors and people at similar roles do to help grad. students. I believe all education fronts will be among the firsts to experience this positive wave. Personalized training, access to a chatty subject expert has changed chess a lot, we have very many grandmasters around the world at the ages of 10-15 today. Even Turkey (my country) has two grandmasters who are in secondary and high school and they compete at the levels of Kasparov and are the top two players of the country. Hopefully, math education will also get positively affected with a similar personalized AI training with a subject expert and we can detect and educate the new Ramajuans whereever they are. Chatgpt will make Mathematicians Great Again, as if it is 18th century!
The Bubeck bit seems bad faith. One could know about self-contracted curves, know about its connection to a space, and not make a connection to a new problem in that same space. One could also introduce them to a more general audience as "there is something called self-contracted curves." One could contest hype, make fun of something like sparks (as they should), call out various actors involved, but still make sure one is kosher and good faith. Unfortunately, you almost never manage to do that. You are much more similar to those guys then you realize.
This new paper is also relevant https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19804 . I imagine the authors are having a little fun with the word "resolve" in the abstract, meaning either resolve or re-solve.
incredible.
I do want to point out that Mark Sellke did not start the tweeting chain. He quoted the initiating tweet that was not misleading, and in that context his tweet wasn't misleading either. However, twitter truncates quotes to one level, so when his tweet was quoted by followup tweets, the original context was lost.
I agree. I don't think Sellke or Bloom were bad actors, and they did their best to clarify what was happening. But in this boom where there's so much money at stake, you can't even work on cute math problems in peace anymore.
It's the singularity. Of hype and hysteria amplified through social networks algorithms.
I dread a transition from artificial superhuman intelligence to artificial hyper-human intelligence, then possibly artificial ultra-human intelligence.
We must draw the line somewhere! I'll sign any petition calling for a ban on artificial supercalifragilisticexpialidocious intelligence. I hope the pope, alt-right leadership, progressive bureaucrats, four-star generals, British royalty, social media influencers, Nobel laureates, and the Dalai Lama will join in. Amazingly, this is not the start of a joke involving going to a bar, but the reality of our times.
It's a bit brutal on my friends and coauthors, but I see the point. Lost lore and willful forgetting sound so medieval. That, too, is in sync with our times.
While I was studying martingales from Ross’ Stochastic processes textbook about 2 months ago, I could not see where the conditional independence or something like that is used in a proof of a lemma. In such dire situations, I tend to ask a knowledgeable friend and get a thoughtful response if all goes right. Unfortunately, I could not find a knowledgeable friend in this topic and taken the screenshot and posted it to chatgpt (free version). It has very quickly and kindly explained what I am missing out and the explanation was all correct. So, I cannot say that it is pushing the barriers of human knowledge; but, that conversation agent helped me to push my personal barriers and learn something new. This is what research advisors and people at similar roles do to help grad. students. I believe all education fronts will be among the firsts to experience this positive wave. Personalized training, access to a chatty subject expert has changed chess a lot, we have very many grandmasters around the world at the ages of 10-15 today. Even Turkey (my country) has two grandmasters who are in secondary and high school and they compete at the levels of Kasparov and are the top two players of the country. Hopefully, math education will also get positively affected with a similar personalized AI training with a subject expert and we can detect and educate the new Ramajuans whereever they are. Chatgpt will make Mathematicians Great Again, as if it is 18th century!
The Bubeck bit seems bad faith. One could know about self-contracted curves, know about its connection to a space, and not make a connection to a new problem in that same space. One could also introduce them to a more general audience as "there is something called self-contracted curves." One could contest hype, make fun of something like sparks (as they should), call out various actors involved, but still make sure one is kosher and good faith. Unfortunately, you almost never manage to do that. You are much more similar to those guys then you realize.
Did you sign up for a Substack account just to tell me this? Fascinating.
Probably it's all Dr. Soong's fault.
You ended this blog post so well!
> "If you want to believe that AGI is here, it helps to become willfully forgetful of what you already know."
This isn't the message I expected to take away from the subtitle, "When insight comes from willful forgetting.", which is the ironic part.