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by pas 261 days ago
"came from" after some serious guidance, though the fact that GPT5 can offer candidate solutions (?) is pretty nice
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It can't offer solutions, it can offer cribbed patterns from the training corpus (more specifically some fuzzy superposition of symbol combinations) that apply in some specific context. It's not clear why Aaronson is constantly hyping this stuff b/c it seems like he is much more rigorous in his regular work than when he is making grand proclamations about some impending singularity wherein everyone just asks the computer the right questions to get the right answers.