points by srdjanr 2 days ago | 0 comments
Isn't whole CS basically pure math?
[–] bananaflag 2 days ago
[–] RugnirViking 2 days ago
I understand its hyperbole but are there people seriously trying to benchmark how good ai is at seducing people? lol
[–] drstewart 2 days ago
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/435/
The flagship case is AI itself, where we rely on benchmarks, not proofs (how could one prove "is good at seducing people").
Something that could have qualified as a "CS discovery" would have been, for example, a SAT or SMT solver that dwarfs in performance any existing one.
Something that could have qualified as a "physics discovery" would have been a new particle. Anyway, something that would come out of experimental data.