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This is a good test because it’s recent. Let’s see if deep research can come up with this result without just copying this.

Edit: gpt4, Gemini 2 and Claude had no luck. Human driven computer science is still safe.



Do you think the results would be different if you tried this with, say, a cohort of PhD students?


Original thought or additional intuitive improvements such as this discovery is what we should be looking for.

This can come from anywhere in the world. The best part is, it did NOT discovered from an AI program.


It would be better if it came from AI, as it would show that AI will be able to make helpful improvements to technology.

AI has come up with impartments to other algorithms, such as matrix multiplication, so it's not super farfetched for it to come up with something similar to this, especially with all the improvements to AI lately.

So much pessimism about AI...


And yet those who want AGI often talk about the potential for AI to solve all our major problems.


I'm so confused trying to imagine exactly what you prompted. What did you prompt?!


I told it is was possible, the worst case runtime characteristics and asked it to figure out how you would achieve it. I also gave it some hints from the paper.




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