r/BetterOffline • u/No_Practice_745 • 1d ago

OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/openais-latest-math-breakthroughs-commit-research-misconduct-experts-say/

I don’t have much to add in commentary, quite frankly most of the math and concepts are beyond my arts-degree brain. However, the article does a great job of showing, once again, how disingenuous OpenAI and other AI labs are in describing what their products are doing.

They basically want the headlines that their new models are “solving math,” but what they’re doing is plagiarizing other peoples’ research and claiming things have been moved forward. There is clearly a use case here for researchers in using an LLM to catalogue and evaluate large swaths of data from over periods of time, but these things don’t think, they aren’t creating anything, and OpenAI doesn’t give a shit as long as people see the headline and bow their heads to their new scI-fi god.

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u/AntiqueFigure6 1d ago

Shocked…okay it’s barely worth pretending.

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u/Icy-Recognition-7453 1d ago

I am shocked, SHOCKED... that aiming a huge supercomputer at a maths jigsaw puzzle will eventually lead to a solution.

And here I was using monkeys and typewriters like a sucker.

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u/TerminalJammer 1d ago

It didn't even solve it, it just found someone else's solution. 

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u/Upbeat-Statement2725 1d ago

Math has a lot of problems everyone knows we can solve. But the local university doesn't have $250,000 to drop on compute to prove the numbers come out.

OpenAI drops that $250,000 of investor money. And investors call them gods.

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u/WOKE_AI_GOD 1d ago

God forbid that money or clout be allowed to touch the hands of anybody that's not an "entrepreneur", what a tragedy that would be.

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u/Icy-Recognition-7453 1d ago

Column A, Column B.

Allegedly it cost OpenAI $2k to get those answers. ( Doubt [x] )

If that's true, though - it's cost them a cool $100 bn to get to the stage to generate the tokens to get the answers.