> I suspect that this is in fact the source of much of the angst.
Why do you "suspect" this as if it's some hidden motivation when the very first paragraph of the advisory group's statement (linked from the OpenAI post) says:
> At present, some frontier AI labs are testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary models that remain inaccessible to the broader scientific community. Our recommendations are formulated with this practical context in mind. However, ideally, they would not do so. We want to state clearly from the start: we do not endorse this practice, and we ask them to stop testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary models.
Tao and others in that group have been strongly and publicly pro AI from the start. They are not advocating "going back". They're objecting to the strip mining of open problems using proprietary technology.
Why do you "suspect" this as if it's some hidden motivation when the very first paragraph of the advisory group's statement (linked from the OpenAI post) says:
> At present, some frontier AI labs are testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary models that remain inaccessible to the broader scientific community. Our recommendations are formulated with this practical context in mind. However, ideally, they would not do so. We want to state clearly from the start: we do not endorse this practice, and we ask them to stop testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary models.
Tao and others in that group have been strongly and publicly pro AI from the start. They are not advocating "going back". They're objecting to the strip mining of open problems using proprietary technology.