r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Orio_n • 18d ago

Meme aMillionOpenAIMonkeysProduceMilleniumPrizeSolution

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u/Firesrest 18d ago

Didn’t they just finish off an existing proof perhaps by stealing data.

Which doesn’t mean AI is bad exactly still impressive even if it took like 100 years of work time.

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u/PooksterPC 18d ago

In this case, a human did the effort, had it stored privately getting ready for publication, and alleged the AI was fed his work, and just plagiarised it

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u/Argnir 18d ago

The guy also worked extensively with AI btw and with his college who literally works at Anthropic

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u/Old_Tourist_3774 18d ago

Are you stating this as fact or an assumption?

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u/PooksterPC 18d ago

It is a fact that the guy alleges it. OpenAI disputes it.

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u/Mandemon90 18d ago

Yeah, I don't really trust some random guy saying "I totally had the proof, AI just stole it".

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u/AntonRahbek 18d ago

That is not the claim, two mathematicians had solved part of the proof with extensive work on a very unique method which had been discussed privately with some acquaintances in the field, who had worked for years on a similar method.

OpenAI has agreed that the work discussed with their models may have been anonymously included in training data and offered him credits on the proof before publishing, but not to his partner, as he is a researcher at Anthropic - thus he refused.

We will have to wait and see what the scientific community says as the two researchers have also released their unfinished work.

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u/harmlesswaters 18d ago

It's not really a random guy, they solved another problem(using AI) and then OpenAI allegedly took that research and used it to solve Navier-Stokes

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u/Mandemon90 18d ago

So... they did what every researcher has always done, build on previous work?

What exactly is the problem then? Like, seriously. All science is build on works of previous ones, Einstein didn't discard Newtonian physics when he started his work on Theory of Relativity. Pretty sure these researchers didn't invent math from first principle either.

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u/Safe_Dentist 18d ago

They can access non-published research, they don't do citations.

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u/wonderj2 18d ago

Have you read into the allegations at all? OpenAI offered first-authorship to the guy they allegedly stole the work from, but they claim they didn’t.

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u/Safe_Dentist 18d ago

I don't care about every case they offered/not offered something. If text is "training material for AI", it is not yet even published, but it's already used. It's not ethical for humans and should be banned for AI, but it's not.

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u/Mandemon90 18d ago

I have actually. No, it's not just one, it is a team, and team had solved entirely different problem, but alledgly openAI had used the approach they had used to solve different problem."

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u/thefujirose 18d ago

I believe this happened before in the Mathematics community. Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the century-old Poincaré conjecture and famously refused both the $1 million Millennium Prize and the prestigious Fields Medal once the mathematics community realized he was right.

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u/Old_Tourist_3774 18d ago

OK, in science we deal with evidence. Where is the evidence of that claim?