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ChatGPT disproved an Erdős conjecture using cross-disciplinary mathematical reasoning
“The big result was that this conjecture of this lower bound for the number of pairs that you can make is, is false. Not only is it false, it was false due to a really interesting connection to another field of mathematics.”
Evans: Submitting 1,000 prompts placed ChatGPT users in top 20%
“Turns out that if you did a thousand posts, if you did a thousand prompts last year, you're in the top 20%.”
A large cohort of internet users has replaced search engines with ChatGPT
“There's a whole cohort of humans that have already largely replaced a very, very large proportion of their traditional search behavior on search engines from looking through these search engine results pages to just trusting the answers that that come out of C…”
Zhou: Fine-tuning transformed GPT-3 into ChatGPT
“Fine tuning is the technology that got from a research project in 2020 called GPT-III and turned that into ChatGPT, a billion dollar app, right?”
Hierarchical Reasoning Model matches larger LLMs on ARC using Transformer architecture
“Hierarchical reasoning model, it became like popular because it performed relatively well on that benchmark compared to very expensive models like Gemini, Chachupiti, and so forth. And it is a transformer architecture.”
Evans: ChatGPT usage on Google Trends drops sharply in summer and Christmas
“I mean, it's funny if you look at Google Trends. There's a big sag in the summer and then a big sag in the Christmas week.”