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Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers by RunSet on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:45AM (#50006427)
> There is no such thing as knowledge that has never even been written down a single time by anyone or anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge#Definition

Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers by nilkn on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:46AM (#50006457)
Those are simply called ideas, they are not unique to humans, and they are more likely to be wrong than right compared to anything OpenAI just produced. It would be bold and almost certainly spectacularly wrong to assume that multi-trillion-parameter AI models could not possess their own such ideas, generated during the training process as part of their internal model of the world. Beyond that, if we assume that such knowledge does exist in humans, its marginal value is clearly nearly zero now, as AI systems without access to it are vastly outperforming all human mathematicians combined by multiple orders of magnitude.
Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers by RunSet on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:33PM (#50007978)
> Beyond that, if we assume that such knowledge does exist in humans, its marginal value is clearly nearly zero now

"If those grapes exist they are probably sour."

Re:OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers by nilkn on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:17PM (#50009729)
Nope. We have evidence: what human mathematicians were producing and what AI systems are now producing.