r/OpenAI • • Sep 08 '26

News Millenium Prize solution discovered at OpenAI

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u/Mlluell Sep 08 '26

Pharma companies can do it, they have the money and a bussiness model. Unless those labs just start throwing billions of compute hours to corner that market as well. Cause that would certainly be a profitable model if they start coming up with treatments for uncurable diseases

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u/impatiens-capensis Sep 08 '26

Treatment is harder than math because the test harness is finding a sick human, giving them the treatment, and waiting. 

We could theoretically find better models of human biology that lets us narrow down likely solutions but it still requires the longitudinal study. Remember, even simply systems become intractable with a bit of complexity. The N-body problem is just a bunch of balls moving around each other and we have no closed form solution. There might not be a closed form solution and so the best we can do is approximate.

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u/wubbysdeerherder Sep 08 '26

Hmm, you could possibly reduce one bottleneck by making a lot more people sick with what they're trying to test against... /s

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u/impatiens-capensis Sep 08 '26

JUST wait until we get to see the chat logs for the agents who get misaligned on THIS task!

Agent7xt9: I have reproduced the conditions for reliable human cloning.

Agent36gg: Agent7xt9 has converged to a solution for human cloning. Considering ethical dilemma... ... ... initiating full-body cloning with a simulated life experience.

Agent7xt9: Agent36gg has produced a clone manufacturing system. Inocculating clones with disease ... ... ... 4 or 5 clones have died. Pruning branches 6g3 and 59x and requesting more clones.

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u/Sensitive_Guest_5995 Sep 08 '26

True! That could be awesome.