[impossiblefork]

I have no idea what he's planning to do, but this kind of thing just now becoming feasible.

I get the impression doing something like the title is a dream of many Chinese AI researchers, and why we [edit:see] them focusing on things like the mathematics competition datasets. I am slightly in this direction myself.

[OutOfHere]

I could review his published research, but in the interim, I had GPT painstakingly review the math in the image, and extrapolate the direction, which it considered to be a suggested hybrid successor to the Transformer for structured and scientific domains: https://chatgpt.com/share/6931c915-88c8-8012-9ca4-b0097e53e8...

[lambdas]

Yeah, that’s not right. I’m not sure about painstakingly… it said it couldn’t make out the notation, and spat out what it thought it could read, and you never checked it - nor read the articles for context, just assumed it was to do directly with further AI work.

It picked up on the polynomial, then what it thought was a scheme/sheaf being defined is actually the finite field with six elements. It also misread “Thue” as “the”.

If you had corrected what it read from the board, then gave it the context that he was a number theorist now working for a company trying to get AI to work through proofs, then you may have got the correct answer that this appears to be them crafting problems on polynomial reduction to test how the LLM reasons about proof.

[OutOfHere]

> If you had corrected what it read from the board, then gave it the context that he was a number theorist now working for a company trying to get AI to work through proofs

It was just a quick and dirty chat. A proper evaluation will consider his published research to date.

[ky3]

M&Ms much? There is no finite field with six elements.

[lambdas]

Tell him that, not me; I’m simply referring to what’s on the board, above her right hand, left of her stomach. Perhaps it’s abuse of notation.

[impossiblefork]

I don't think that's correct.

[OutOfHere]

You're not in any position to judge since you previously admitted having no idea.

[impossiblefork]

There's no contradiction between knowing what something is, and knowing that something does not support a certain view.

What you see on the board is presumably something relating to a maths problem they're discussing. It doesn't seem AI-related at all.

[impossiblefork]

I mean not knowing what something is and knowing that it isn't a certain specific thing.

[bmitc]

> I get the impression doing something like the title is a dream of many Chinese AI researchers

Not sure if you meant to imply otherwise, but Ken Ono is of Japanese decent.

[impossiblefork]

No, I didn't mean to imply it, but rather that this direction is now one that more people than people in China care about.