Wonder who the AI researcher worked for? Is a "craze" something which a for-profit company would want to encourage? Maybe they'd think the publicity would help keep people talking about their company and product as we are now doing?
> “There was kind of a standard sequence of moves that everyone who worked on the problem previously started by doing,” Tao says. The LLM took an entirely different route, using a formula that was well known in related parts of math, but which no one had thought to apply to this type of question.
Yep, I do remember this now. Everyone was yelling that this was definitely a sign of ground-breaking and creative work, citing the expert. What the expert actually said suggests that the solution was available in training data! That also suggests the math in TFA is harder in comparison, answering my other question.
Pleasure as always HN, thanks for voting me to the bottom of the thread for this