alt Hacker NewsYou're understanding correctly, this is back and forth between Aristotle and ChatGPT and a (very smart) user.
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Exactly "The Geordi LaForge Paradox" of "AI" systems. The most sophisticated work requires the most sophisticated user, who can only become sophisticated the usual way --- long hard work, trial and error, full-contact kumite with reality, and a degree of devotion to the field.
https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/728#post-2808
> There seems to be some confusion on this so let me clear this up. No, after the model gave its original response, I then proceeded to ask it if it could solve the problem with C=k/logN arbitrarily large. It then identified for itself what both I and Tao noticed about it throwing away k!, and subsequently repaired its proof. I did not need to provide that observation.
so it was literally "yo, your proof is weak!" - "naah, watch this! [proceeds to give full proof all on its own]"
I'd say that counts
I'm not sure i understand the wild hype here in this thread then.
Seems exactly like the tests at my company where even frontier models are revealed to be very expensive rubber ducks, but completely fails with non experts or anything novel or math heavy.
Ie. they mirror the intellect of the user but give you big dopamine hits that'll lead you astray.