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Re:An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in dis... by arsan87 on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @04:13PM (#48213459)
neato. can we do any thing with this new found knowledge or is this mathematical sports?

can we please put these ground breaking AIs to work on actual problems humans have?

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Re:An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in dis... by clarle on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @04:25PM (#48213624)
People thought neural networks were just an interesting thought exercise a few decades ago and not for practical ML problems, and look what happened since then.
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