Tsinghua student rejected for top prize after telling judges grades are pointless in the AGI era
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-14
一篇在中文圈热传的讨论：一位清华特等奖答辩落选的学生当众表示「AI 的进步靠的是前沿实践，我不想在课堂上浪费时间」，并以「我的方向散，是为了让优化的梯度传回我自己身上」回应评委。原帖观点认为，在 AGI 时代任何良定义的指标都可以被瞬间优化，人的意义在于定义目标而非优化分数；在课堂知识出门即过时的周期里，特奖证书不如在真实世界跑出来的模型有分量。转发者并以「孔子穿越体验 GPT-10」的段子调侃「君子不器」。
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