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Bringing AI firepower to bear on pushing forward a complicated proposal that was stalled for good reason isn’t likely to lead anywhere interesting.
Peter Woit
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8 October
9 September
From one piece A Modest Proposal 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The new AI agents have profound implications for mathematics research and I think the math community needs to start discussing specific ways to deal with these.
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the math community needs to adopt a version of the ethical standards of experimental science. If you are using AI agents, you can't just give a proof (formalized or not), but need to also provide a detailed explanation of how these agents were used to get the result.
8 September
From one piece The Situation at Columbia XXXVII 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Framing anti-genocide protests as antisemitic and unsafe began under the Biden administration, not Trump's.Their words
The campaign to paint anti-genocide demonstrations as "antisemitic", violent and threatening to people's "safety" began not under Trump but under the Biden administration.
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The current US government uses false antisemitism accusations to damage and control institutions it views as enemies.Their words
The Fascist regime now ruling the US both enables this and has effectively used bogus accusations of "antisemitism" to damage and exert control over prominent institutions they consider to be enemies.
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Israel's actions in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon amount to ethnic cleansing and genocide.Their words
this is all about support for the ongoing Israeli campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide, which continues with daily slaughter of civilians and demolitions of their homes and communities in Gaza, the West Bank, and now southern Lebanon.
26 August
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This is complete nonsense, a shame that The Economist has been taken in by it.
16 August
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One thing that is showing up is that, in hep-th as elsewhere, AI is being used to scam the public.
26 July
From one piece Requiem for a Field? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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in an intellectually dead field, AI will just produce worthless junk. If what you feed it is decades of complicated and meaningless computations, it will just produce even more complicated and meaningless ones.
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The results have surprised me: these things are a lot more capable than I had expected.
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So far I haven't seen AI agents doing anything new and important that I would care about, but maybe that's just a matter of time...
15 July
From one piece Various and Sundry 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI-generated junk papers risk overwhelming the hep-th physics field with worthless content.Their words
The result is something completely worthless, but not obviously distinguishable from many other things on hep-th, which is in serious danger of going from something sad and unhealthy to something completely overwhelmed with crud.
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While in mathematics AI agents are starting to have a major positive impact on research (e.g. by resolving the Jacobian conjecture), the situation is very different in hep-th.
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I see nothing that looks like a significant new idea or any evidence this isn't a dead field.
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