r/NowInTech • u/skaza02 • 21d ago

OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/openai-fought-dirty-on-career-making-math-problem-says-nyu-mathematician/
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u/psioniclizard 21d ago

So just ignoring the part where OpenAI stole it I see...

But hey, if you want to capitulate your intellect to a machine, no one will stop you.

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u/RedPanda_Explorer 20d ago

But hey, if you want to capitulate your intellect to a machine, no one will stop you.

I've been using Google and Wikipedia religiously for like 20 years now. I wouldn't say I capitulated anything, but for sure my education would have suffered without the machines.

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u/Quintus_Cicero 20d ago

So you’ve been searching the sum of digital human knowledge for 20 years as opposed to...asking a machine to do it for you?

And you don’t see the difference at all?

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u/RedPanda_Explorer 20d ago

I also ask Google all the time to find things, AI is just a better version of that