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Oxford pretends AI benchmarks are science, not marketing (pivot-to-ai.com)
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How could all these benchmarks be fake, it’s a mystery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcYZN6sTZjQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251106-oxford-pretends-ai-benchmarks-are-science-not-marketing - podcast

time: 6 min 16 sec

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 3 days ago

Whatever marginal utility genAI has in mathematics, like being a shitty version of a semantic search engine, is outweighed by the damage it is doing to critical thought at large. "Ooh, the bus to the math conference runs so smoothly on this leaded gasoline!"