alt Hacker NewsThat other researcher was working on a smaller related problem.
He was also using LLMs to do it, so either way most of the credit goes to the LLM here.
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pretendscholar • today at 8:23 PM
Using a shovel means you give it credit for the hole?
jackie293746 • today at 5:33 PM
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both wrong.
1. he was working on the same class of problems. He explicitly mentions they were working to extend their techniques to NS (the same techniques that OpenAI may have scooped somehow), and
2. while he was using LLMs to do it, this was part of fleshing out another mathematician's work in the area. He explicitly writes in his note that this other mathematician (Luis Martinez-Zoroa) deserves a Fields medal for this work.