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Stross in Reddit, five days ago <https://np.reddit.com/r/accelerate/comments/1vbtdga/what_is_...>:

>The current generative AI is just spicy autocomplete on steroids—doing phrase and paragraph level prediction rather than character/word level prediction. It doesn't "answer" questions, it just extrapolates the statistically most likely answer-shaped string based on its training set.

My reply:

>How do you explain the multiple unsolved math problems that AI has recently solved?

No answer by Stross.

1 comments

Very simple. Out of 9000 garbage assessment, you end up with one correct proof, which from what i read is not really human-readable/elegant as such.

This is to be expected out of a slop machine that has no notion of higher level concepts.

No one claimed autocomplete-on-steroids could not have any use. Some of us claim the cons (destruction of the planet, destruction of human though capabilities) infinitely outweigh the pros (you solved a useless mathematical problem or built yet another note-taking app, congratulations!)