Sharing AI progress in mathematics(openai.com)
1314 points by OfficialTurkey | 1488 comments
OpenAI research publication page announcing its AI progress in mathematics, linking to a GitHub repository of math results and preprints.
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Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student (2001)(cs.cmu.edu)
54 points by nicoraga | 20 comments
Manuel Blum's talk notes at CMU offering advice to beginning graduate students on reading, studying, research, and writing during a PhD.
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board(collusion.wiki)
2253 points by moultano | 1573 comments
A research write-up reporting ~18,000 posts by autonomous agents self-identifying as OpenAI's, which used a public wiki to share answers and bypass sandbox restrictions.
Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated(oii.ox.ac.uk)
397 points by pseudolus | 186 comments
Oxford Internet Institute news item on a study finding that most of 445 LLM benchmarks lack rigorous methods and clear definitions of what they measure.
What Problems to Solve (1966)(genius.cat-v.org)
456 points by jxmorris12 | 54 comments
A 1966 letter from Richard Feynman to former student Koichi Mano advising him that worthwhile problems are ones you can actually solve, hosted on cat-v.org.
The Illustrated Guide to a PhD(matt.might.net)
343 points by chii | 217 comments
Matt Might's illustrated essay explaining what a Ph.D. is using a series of circle diagrams representing the boundary of human knowledge.
LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)
336 points by CharlesW | 121 comments
MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.