The GP said "I like how everyone laughed when OpenAI said their models will have PhD-Level Intelligence", and you said you still laughed, so I just wanted to confirm if you did laugh at that. Apparently you did not. Thanks for the confirmation. I think you should not, given your admittedly limited understanding.
You don't know the names of the mathematicians who've given their thoughts on this? If not, you really should just not comment on anything mathematical ever again.
I do know their names. However I'm not in the field and there are many cases in recent years of high-profile scientists putting their weight behind highly dubious claims. Thanks for the advice, by the way.
Note that I'm not disputing the validity of the counterexample itself.
That's fair. If you're familiar with mathematics culture though, you'd know that "LLM hype" is not really in their blood and is certainly not something that gains you PR points. I think it's safe to take their comments at face value. I do think the ice is beginning to thaw though and perhaps in the next few years, there will begin to become more of a hype phase in math if some really high profile problems begin to fall to AI, although one might argue at that point that the hype would be deserved.
Doesn't make much sense, does it? If I accept that I don't have enough information on something, then I withhold judgement. There's nothing so reserved about mockery and cynicism. You're not cautious, you outright hedge that it's all a lie, and paint everyone else to be a complete idiot for thinking at all otherwise.
The world runs on trust, specifically trusting expert advice. It'd seem that due to resource constraints and scale, that's the best available option. By extension, there should be absolutely nothing weird or surprising on people following suit. It's why these companies themselves rely on expert counsel, and defer to their appraisals for marketing. The opposite is what's weird and unusual, and what requires more substantiation.
It's interesting that those who come out swinging against "trusting the experts", or really, trusting anyone else but them, not only ~never acknowledge this, but are seemingly outright proud of it, considering it as their own unique little trait, egocentrically revelling in it. It's almost as if epistemic rigor and truthfulness was not their actual concern.
Woohoo, I'm distrustful and cynical. Behold my unfathomable wisdom! Bonus points if they're also hurtful, because flipping the arrow on "hard truths -> hurt feelings" is a masterclass in reasoning too, of course.
I can appreciate faulting experts and organizations for misusing people's trust, and looking out for this angle, but given how unavoidable and fundamentally useful trusting itself is, blaming people for defaulting to trusting makes no sense to me whatsoever. It comes across as just the usual trope of blaming the individual. If you're from a lower-trust culture / environment, I can appreciate why you'd have a more distrustful default disposition (and why people might come across as suckers), but the principle still holds.