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OpenAI said in its announcement that search responses will include in-line citations and that users can open a sidebar to view links to external sources. The long-term goal is to then incorporate search features into ChatGPT, the company’s flagship AI product.

"The long-term goal is to reinvent the Internet of 25 years ago, but worse."

Regarding that claimed breakthrough about AI winning the International Mathematical Olympiad: a reminder that a proof which hangs together logically is not necessarily a proof that makes sense.

Those formalized proofs are so incredibly ugly, it's amazing. Of course it doesn't much of a sensible indentation, but then there are single proof steps where I have no idea what it's even doing. [...] And then there are nonsense mathematical steps. The solution of problem 2 starts with induction, before introducing any variables. It applies induction to the number 12. And it write 12 as (10)+2. Then it proceeds to do the whole proof in the base case of the induction, and notices that the induction step is trivial, since the goal is the same as the induction hypothesis (but instead of the assumption tactic it uses congr 26).

Incoming ban from site detected.

Saying anything in particular makes you open to fact-based criticism — I mean, it is object-level and bad, instead of meta-level and good.

This is Virtuosity (1995) slander

He started getting high off his own supply and thinking he could do climate science better than climate scientists back in 2012.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nate-silver-climate-change_b_1909482

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/mar/25/fivethirtyeight-misrepresents-climate-change-research

"[A]cademic publisher Taylor & Francis, which owns Routledge, had sold access to its authors’ research as part of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnership with Microsoft—a deal worth almost £8m ($10m) in its first year."

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/academic-authors-shocked-after-taylor--francis-sells-access-to-their-research-to-microsoft-ai

"I love trash, baka!"

— Asuka the Grouch

Artificial Intelligence professor Toby Walsh

Asking for a professor of genuine intelligence is just too much.

That seems suspiciously soon, but my impression is based on nothing but vibes — a sense that companies are still buying in.

For example, in the case of physics one could imagine working through very high quality course materials together with Feynman

Women of the world: um, about that

Apparently the "startup ecosystem" matters more than the ecosystem of, you know, actual living things.

These people are just amazingly fucking evil.