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Re:Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been... by senordevnyc on Friday October 02, 2026 @08:24AM (#49932700)
Yeah, they could easily just share the untold trillions of tokens the 10k agents generated over 88 hours, which would also be a goldmine for their competitors, no big deal.

I find it mind boggling that anyone thinks these agents only solved this problem because they maybe could possibly have seen the unfinished work of researchers who were working on a simpler version of the problem, (also with AI).

Looking forward to the cope when the next big problem falls.

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Re:Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been... by eviks on Friday October 02, 2026 @09:33AM (#49933351)
Yeah, they could indeed easily just share the tokens. And you can ask your favorite AI to explain that it doesn't have to be a public release to all the competitors if you can't come up with a better alternative yourself. There is a big range between no-one and every-one
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Re:Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been... by dormento on Friday October 02, 2026 @08:51AM (#49932955)
> Yeah, they could easily just share the untold trillions of tokens the 10k agents generated over 88 hours, which would also be a goldmine for their competitors, no big deal.

I hope I'm not being too blunt, but the other alternative is to "just trust me bro" the hyperscalers, who are pretty much locked into a battle for profitability and have all the incentives to make up things to prop up their stock, no? I don't think this is the way.

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Re:Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been... by pessimizer on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:21PM (#49935317)
AI can't be a religion if you don't attack with fire the people for whom "just trust me bro" isn't good enough. "Just Trust Them, Bros!" is the central tenet.
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Re:Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been... by senordevnyc on Friday October 02, 2026 @07:48PM (#49940007)
Then don't trust them?
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Re:Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been... by someonebaggy on Saturday October 03, 2026 @11:18AM (#49945041)
That's what they're asking for - by getting the tokens
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Re:Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been... by _superposition_ on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:27PM (#49935389)
Yeah they don't want to share the tokens because I guarantee it's a bunch of nonsense trial and error leaning on lean for verification. Those tokens will show the lack of intelligence, not the presence of it.
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Re:Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been... by someonebaggy on Saturday October 03, 2026 @11:18AM (#49945049)
A machine that solves open problems by brute force trial and error is still pretty cool.
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