https://openai.com/index/building-scientific-understanding-with-academic-communities/

The Kakeya conjecture…Implications in:

Medical imaging, Earthquake and geological modeling, and sound and communications

Exponential Time Hypothesis being false (the huge one)…implications in:

Computer engineering and software, logistics and optimization, biological and pharmaceutical research, and lol Artificial Intelligence development itself (when the techniques behind this discovery become practical, an AI system might search larger solution spaces, verify more possibilities, or solve certain constraint problems with fewer resources)

More efficient software and engineering tools.

Better scheduling and allocation of limited resources.

Faster verification of increasingly complex computer systems.

Improved computational methods in scientific research.

More capable AI systems for certain reasoning tasks

Quantum chromodynamics and the Standard Model: Giving fundamental physics a rigorous mathematical foundation

Im gonna leave this one to the mathematics and math subreddits. They are excited in ways that I can’t properly convey because I lack the technical knowledge and cannot verify any ai outputs personally. So I’ll direct you to either the “math” subreddit or the “mathematics” subreddit.

But I will say this. In 2027, you’ll have these discoveries every three days in just about every technical field of math, biology, physics, and machine learning.

came across this video on pixai. i can't imagine how much generation credits went into making something like this, so that all the details stay consistent. i see a lot of examples of what people say are bad AI videos, or low effort videos that aid their anti ai arguments are just cheap ai videos made with a lower budget, either on a cheaper model, a lower resolution, or less generation tries. The quality of some of the high budget content is amazing. The quality of ai content has come down to a battle of tokens and labor.

i was at an ai film festival recently, and most of the creators couldn't come in person, so they submitted ai generated video speeches. their films are amazing, but their acceptance speech videos are really low quality. you can see details breaking and glitching, the image quality is much worse, and the characters are stiff. the reason for that is that it saves cost.

I use AI tooling in my career (software dev, so it's all but expected now), but I am struggling to understand what this technology is going to do for my day-to-day outside of work.

So here's how my days generally go outside of work.

Morning: get up and do the usual morning routine stuff (feeding dogs, letting them out, eating breakfast, taking a shower, etc). Nothing here really needed the internet to begin with, let alone AI.

Evenings and weekends:

Shopping - I try to buy local, even if the only option is big box stores, because I like getting out of my house after spending all week working inside. The internet was already assisting with checking stock availability in local stores on items I plan on purchasing, or researching the right products for whatever my needs were via reddit and user reviews. No AI was needed here, directly or indirectly.

Activities - I might go for a hike, or kayaking. I might go spend time outside in my vegetable garden, or with my chickens. I might take the occasional day trip or vacation. Anything that required planning was already accomplished via the internet before AI. I've found no need to interact with chatbots or agents to help with these tasks. Planning a trip or going to a show? Plenty of sites to help me plan some fun activities and buy tickets. Tips on how to grow food or care for my chickens? Lots of videos on youtube, threads on reddit, and niche forum posts for basically any interests.

You know where I directly interact with AI the most in my personal life? When I need support from a service I pay a subscription for and they force me into interacting with their shitty AI chatbot. Which is never anything but a frustrating and infuriating exercise.

Basically, what was missing from my life that I'll need these tools? Why will I ever need my own personal AI subscriptions?

"But this will all help you save more time so you can focus on what you really want to do with your life/make more money/etc".

The thing is...I like engaging with all these tasks. I like using search engines, digging through reddit and youtube, etc, checking what was in stock where, using booking websites to plan a trip, all manually in the way I had been doing it. There was something rewarding about it that I just wouldn't get from asking chatbots and delegating tasks to agents. And let's be frank, the whole "time is money" idea is not what most people think it is. Every minute I could be saving by using AI tools to assist me is likely not time I could have spent making an extra buck. I work a 9-5, I'm tired, and I don't have the entrepreneur mindset nor the energy to put into side hustles. I don't need to be rich, I just want a roof over my head, food to eat, and a little free time to dedicate to things other than working for my paycheck. This whole idea that AI will allow everyone to become their own boss and make their own money is absurd and not realistic at all.

I think after typing this all out is that I've arrived at the conclusion that I really enjoy the process of getting to the thing. And I think some pro AI people (especially when it comes to gen AI) don't care about the process and just want the thing.

Again, I can see how this technology helps businesses. I use it every day to help me build things. I just don't understand why I'll ever need to integrate it into my personal life.

To be neutral - each side is being a bitch, atleast of not the entirety of both sides but yk.

Antis:

Not even bringing good arguments or repeating, harassing, stuck on the water thing (which yes it takes lot locally which is bad, but not​ alot globally), making disgusting comments, fighting each other, and invading.

Pros:

Ragebaits, victim acts (trying to call criticism, discrimination), making such disgusting and unnecessary comic things, repeating, fighting each other, and invading.

Do we... Like this?

It wouldn't matter if Big Tech were the most criminal enterprise on Earth. No karmic retribution is coming.

Stop hoping for it. Stop depending on it for justice. There is no such thing as karma. This world is unfair and unjust.

Anthropic will IPO and survive. So will OpenAI. No one is going to jail.

Are you antis unable to make even one coherent and objectively verifiable argument for your position? I have never seen a single one that is not some form of special pleading, post-hoc rationalization, or just purely bigoted levels of hate.

Give me your best arguments!

We have access to a tool that can explain complicated subjects, help us understand our emotions, teach us new skills, challenge our perspectives, and turn ideas we struggle to express into something meaningful.

Yet one of the biggest questions we should be asking is whether we're using AI to develop ourselves or slowly teaching ourselves that we don't need to think for ourselves anymore.

I don't think AI is something we should automatically fear, and I don't think we should blindly trust it, either. There's a lot of potential here, and I believe people can use it to genuinely improve their lives.

But the way we use it matters.

There's a difference between asking AI to help you understand something and asking it to do all your understanding for you. There's a difference between using it to organize your thoughts and letting it decide what you should think. There's a difference between using it to improve your writing and losing confidence in your ability to express yourself without it.

The real question isn't whether AI is good or bad. It's whether we're becoming more capable because of it, or more dependent on it.

An SWE candidate has been seeing a girl for a couple of months. When the candidate mentioned prepping for Anthropic interviews, she completely flipped. Called them scum of the earth, said working on AI is destroying the world, and that anyone chasing those jobs is part of the problem.

For readers doing the prep too, Anthropic Interview Questions has reported coding and design prompts to rehearse. Those exploring other roles can save repeated application typing with LandOffer’s autofill.

The candidate tried to explain their stance, but she wasn't having it. They don't know how to feel about this. They really like her, but think she's being so unreasonable.

Art is the expression of emotion, experience, and human consciousness. Merriam Webster:
"Something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings".

When you make a piece of art, you are pouring your imagination and skill into every step of the process. Prompting an AI to make art is not only outsourcing this crucial process to a machine, but also stealing “imagination” aspect from the soup of every other human’s imagination on the internet.

And if you want to argue that the prompter does hold the creativity behind the work, and the AI is simply the tool with which it was made: when you commission an artist to make art for you and describe in detail what it should look like and your vision, did you make the art? No. Same for prompting. If the artist traces over someone else's artwork, did they make the art? No.

if someone doordashes a meal that does not make them a chef, furthermore if someone commissions an artist they are not the artist and prompting gobanana2.09 or whatever to make an image if the same as commissioning an traits but the artist is a clanker.(image unrelated)

some of that stuff is so ass idk if i wanna be associated with yall at this point

https://youtu.be/LvvG21CpaS4

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(https://websterjournal.com/matpat-draws-overwhelming-crowd-at-keynote-event/)

Honestly, I agree with that approach.

You can criticise AI without treating the entire technology as inherently evil. You can acknowledge its flaws without pretending it has no legitimate uses. You can defend artists without attacking everyone who uses AI to create.

AI being capable of producing garbage doesn't mean every AI-assisted creation is garbage. That's judging the tool by its worst outputs rather than examining what someone actually does with it. This is what me and most pros I have talked to believe in how people should handle the technology.

Everyone liked yesterday's installment, so I decided to make a part 2.

Here's part 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/aiwars/comments/1xfjz3g/ai_artistry_the_modern_form_of_drawing/

Speedrunning Idiocracy and turning our collective minds into absolute pudding.

This felt incredibly relevant to the AI discussion