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In a guest blog post, mathematician Amit Sahai says AI systems he has worked with are producing genuinely new mathematical ideas, not just fast calculations or restating known arguments. He argues this will make many researchers feel unable to keep pace, echoing struggles once faced by undergraduates who abandoned math research because top peers grasped concepts faster than they could.
A commentator argues that instead of obsessing over crafting the perfect text prompts for LLMs, developers should build interlocking evaluation and optimization pipelines that use additional AI systems to manage and refine model behavior. The piece contends that treating prompts as meaningful language leads people to mistakenly attribute intent or consciousness to systems that have neither.
Bill Gates published an essay urging governments to impose enforceable rules on AI, including a tax on AI token usage to fund support for displaced workers and protected 'Human Reserved' jobs like caregiving. He said tech executives privately worry about AI's disruptive pace but avoid saying so publicly, breaking from the industry's optimistic public stance.