Two #AI-related events over the past week — the #Chardet licensing controversy and legendary computer scientist #DonKnuth's shock over AI helping discover a theorem for a problem he'd not yet solved — demand a reckoning: precisely how creative is AI? https://reviews.ofb.biz/sa1401

#Creativity #Licensing #OpenSource #Python #DonaldKnuth #TAOCP #Claude

“Shock! Shock! I learned yesterday that an open #problem I’d been working on for several weeks had just been solved by #Claude Opus 4.6 — #Anthropic’s hybrid #ReasoningModel that had been released three weeks earlier!

It seems that I’ll have to revise my opinions about “#GenerativeAI” one of these days. What a joy it is to learn not only that my #conjecture has a nice #solution but also to celebrate this dramatic advance in #AutomaticDeduction and creative problem solving.” — #DonKnuth

#CS / #ComputerScience <https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf>

AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes (@AISafetyMemes)

세계적 수학자 도널드 크누스(Don Knuth)가 자신의 수주간 난제 해결 과정에서 Anthropic의 언어모델 'Claude'가 해당 열린 문제를 풀어낸 것에 크게 놀라워하고 있다는 내용입니다. 모델의 수학 문제 풀이 능력을 강조한 사례입니다.

https://x.com/AISafetyMemes/status/2029192375340306576

#claude #donknuth #math #llm

Claude's Cycles: Claude Opus 4.6 solves a problem posed by Don Knuth [pdf]

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf

#HackerNews #ClaudeCycles #DonKnuth #Opus46 #ProblemSolving #PDF #TechInnovation

Happy birthday, Don Knuth! Great to see you rocking on at the age of 88! #donknuth #dek #computerScience

"My Japanese friends tell me that my birthday this year will be the best. My Brazilian friends tell me that I should celebrate that occasion with tapioca pancakes. (AI can explain this.)"

"(If you're depressed by current world news, you might find some solace by immersing yourself in a bit of research into eternally beautiful patterns.)"

→ quotes of his website
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news.html

Correspondence Between Don Knuth and Peter van Emde Boas on Priority Deques 1977 [pdf]

https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/p.vanemdeboas/knuthnote.pdf

#HackerNews #DonKnuth #PeterVanEmdeBoas #PriorityDeques #1977 #Correspondence #PDF

Donald E. #Knuth — The Grapholinguistic Model of #TeX (interview) 2024-10-24 — “All Questions Answered”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVSuM84SS3M

Q: "What will you do if you receive a bugreport coming from an AI? Will you pay the hexadecimal dollar and to whom?" at mark 55:20

#DonKnuth #TeXLaTeX #AI

Donald E. #Knuth — The Grapholinguistic Model of #TeX (interview) 2024-10-24 — “All Questions Answered”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVSuM84SS3M

"If some illness hits me, I am not gonna be angry about it. I will be thankful for all the good health I had. And while I stay healthy. I am gonna do my best to continue producing more of TAOCP […]" at mark 53:30

#DonKnuth #TeXLaTeX