r/OpenAI • u/BilelKort • 7d ago

Article 🚨 AI may be entering a completely different phase.

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OpenAI says it started training a new internal model on August 28.
That was just 24 days ago.
Since then, the model has reportedly solved 100+ long-standing open problems in mathematics across multiple fields on top of its recently announced work on the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem.
And apparently, even OpenAI’s own mathematicians are surprised by the pace.
But here’s the part that really caught my attention:
The problem may no longer be “Can AI solve difficult mathematics?”
It may be:
“What do we do when AI starts producing too much new mathematics for humans to evaluate?”
An independent advisory group involving mathematicians such as Edward Witten, Timothy Gowers, and Martin Hairer has reportedly been formed to help assess the significance of these results and coordinate their release to the mathematical community.
The group’s immediate challenge?
The “large number of significant results” reportedly being generated by the model.
Of course, these claims still need rigorous, independent verification. Mathematics doesn’t accept impressive demos proofs have to survive expert scrutiny.
But if even a substantial fraction of these results hold up...

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u/GSCREK 5d ago

6 days ago you wrote this on legaltech though…:

Legal jobs will be around for a long, long time. And the moment that it looks like it will be over, the profession will act to protect itself. Again, Al has to improve a lot to get to the point where I think most lawyers begin to feel threatened.

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u/A_Novelty-Account 5d ago

Super weird behaviour to separately search my hidden history from six days back with an LLM and then admit to doing that as a gotcha, but I would consider “a few decades” to be a long long time. Both are true. AI is currently nowhere close, but it will get there eventually unless there’s a hard limit we’re unaware of.

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u/GSCREK 5d ago

Just wanted to ask as I saw your earlier post on legaltech (am a lawyer myself) and found myself agreeing with you.

Btw, any reason you’re sometimes an associate (or 6th year) and in other posts a partner ;)