Computational Complexity

Computational Complexity and other fun stuff in math and computer science from Lance Fortnow and Bill Gasarch

Sunday, October 05, 2025

If you use AI in your work do you brag about it or hide it?

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You used AI in your work. Do you hide it or brag about it?  1) In 2002 there was a movie  Simone  about an actress who is really an AI.  The...
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Wednesday, October 01, 2025

Computers Don't Want

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I read through the new book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies  by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. "It" refers to Artificial Su...
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Sunday, September 28, 2025

Clyde Kruskal talks about his Father Martin on Martin's 100th birthday

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Martin Kruskal was born Sept 28, 1925 and passed away on Dec 26, 2006, at the age of 81 (we did two posts for his memorial,  here   and here...
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Thursday, September 25, 2025

Self-Driving Cars

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A few weeks ago I took an Uber to a regional airport and was picked up by a Tesla. The driver used FSD, so-called Full Self-Driving, never t...
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Sunday, September 21, 2025

We can find more papers on the web than we used to. Are we reading them?

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  STUDENT: What did you do before the web to find papers? BILL: We went to the library and copied papers to read later. STUDENT: Did you rea...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

What is "PhD-Level Intelligence"?

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When announcing Open-AI's latest release last month, Sam Altman said "GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to ...
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Monday, September 15, 2025

``I'm on vacation so I won't be checking email'' will sound funny soon. Maybe it already does.

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 "I'll be on vacation so I won't be checking email.'' "I can't be at the meeting since I will be out of town...
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Thursday, September 11, 2025

Is the Prob Method `Just Counting'- I say no and HELL NO

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(After I wrote this post Lance tweeted a pointer to a great talk by Ronald de Wolf with more examples, and also examples of quantum proofs, ...
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