@bsletten Well that's a bit ironic, isn't it... "dubnovy blazen" is absolutely not april fools in (my native) Czech. It's an overly literal translation of the English term and doesn't exist in my language where we say simply "apríl" (archaic word for the month of April) or "aprílový žert/žertík" (April joke, again a bit archaic). So a mathematician, while trying for a gotcha with a BS generator, produced BS that ignores cultural context... but is now out there, polluting our information space.

@animalculum @bsletten wait…you‘re actually blaming the mathematician?

@flq @bsletten as far as I understand it, TG - the quoted mathematician - was the one who invented the name of that fake maths problem, to make a joke about "AI" making shit up. In doing so, he used my language as a plaything without bothering to do a simple research (as anglophones tend to do). And then, people started reporting on it, as if he did the translation right, not checking anything. So yeah, I'm also blaming the mathematician. "AI" being BS is a given. Am I missing something?

@animalculum @flq @bsletten I want to try and explain why you shouldn't blame the mathematician but I can't stop laughing😅

@dilmandila @animalculum @flq @bsletten He's not "blaming" the mathmetician. You're worried about "blame" - you're missing the point. Humans poison the well of information all on their own. Case in point, here we are reading another post on this story and this time it is in image form - we are replicating Gowers' original lie.

@flq the translation is wrong. Which you know.