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Re:The Mathocalypse by lccerina on Thursday October 08, 2026 @07:59AM (#50004779)
I just don't find particularly impressive that a probabilistic machine designed to write code, wrote code, based on the likely distillation of whatever input it got from math researchers blindly trusting OpenAI.

If the only way to power a "technology" would be to kill an elephant every time you use it, then it's a flawed technology even if it solved fundamental problems of humanity. This is currently how GenAI sprawling data centers operate AND without solving any fundamental problem of humanity.

Also I don't care about A specific template, I just find it ridiculous that some trillion dollar company cannot put a line like "please keep papers' structure consistent" in whatever markdown file controls these things. It's sloppy, like everything OpenAI does.

Re:The Mathocalypse by gorgolo on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:10PM (#50010553)
I guess the point of publishing breakthrough research is that by definition, it’s not just regurgitating human output, because there is no human output to these unsolved problems.

There was a bunch public literature on these topics. They were major unsolved problems. Lots of humans would want to have solved them and tried. But here’s it an llm that has solved them.