Re:R49081 Is Prime
by jxf on Sunday November 20, 2022 @11:23PM
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> I am eagerly awaiting any response to know why this is such an unpopular comment! I'm excited to have my mind changed. Tell me.
I suspect it's because "an artificial intelligence that can identify primes for quicker testing" is a phrase that would probably be recognized by experienced developers in this space as a bad idea. There are already very good ways to identify prime candidates; no artificial intelligence is needed. They just take a while because even though they're very efficient, it takes a long time to operate on staggeringly huge numbers.
For a more relatable example, you can build an artificial intelligence that understands what you mean when you type "2 + 2". But this is a fantastically inefficient and expensive way to compute the value "4". Therefore, no one does this in a serious way. Even GPT-3, one of the more advanced commercially available models with hundreds of millions of parameters, struggles with multiplying two-digit numbers together (one study found a success rate of 20%).
I suspect it's because "an artificial intelligence that can identify primes for quicker testing" is a phrase that would probably be recognized by experienced developers in this space as a bad idea. There are already very good ways to identify prime candidates; no artificial intelligence is needed. They just take a while because even though they're very efficient, it takes a long time to operate on staggeringly huge numbers.
For a more relatable example, you can build an artificial intelligence that understands what you mean when you type "2 + 2". But this is a fantastically inefficient and expensive way to compute the value "4". Therefore, no one does this in a serious way. Even GPT-3, one of the more advanced commercially available models with hundreds of millions of parameters, struggles with multiplying two-digit numbers together (one study found a success rate of 20%).