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by raspasov 255 days ago
What is "novel results"? A random UUID generator also gives "novel result", every time.

Even if we're to humor the "novel" part, have they actually come up with anything truly novel? New physics? New proofs of hard math problems that didn't exist before?
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moffkalast 255 days ago
Yes, exactly. There are other papers, but Google proved it most definitively imo [0], an LLM now holds the state of the art for the lowest bound on a very specific graph problem.

[0] https://research.google/blog/ai-as-a-research-partner-advanc...

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measurablefunc 255 days ago
That's not an LLM. AlphaEvolve is a variant of genetic search for program synthesis. Very different from the chat bot that answers questions about ingrown toenails.
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