• we_are_mammals@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    It’s a new conjecture, all right. But it’s clearly false.

    Consider n=4. Then p=5, q=3, k=1. But 5+1 and 3+1 are not primes.

    All you number theorists out there, I think your jobs are safe for the time being.

    • farox@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      I don’t know. A bit more than a year ago GPT2 was somewhere in a lab trying to learn how to tie shoelaces.

        • farox@alien.topB
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          1 year ago

          Fair enough. The point still holds though. At least from the outside it seems things are fast and just accelerating.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not saying its proof is true though, it just posed a conjecture. Proving it would be a whole different ballgame.

      • The-Protomolecule@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, what is it surprise you that it can literally make something up that looks compelling. That’s all that happened here. This is far from the most interesting thing GPT can do.