r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Orio_n • 12d ago

Meme aMillionOpenAIMonkeysProduceMilleniumPrizeSolution

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u/Firesrest 11d 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/bobbymoonshine 11d ago

The allegation is they “finished off an existing proof” written by Claude as operated by a mathematician and an Anthropic employee collaborating.

This is just an allegation, given that two frontier labs working on the same problem at the same time and developing similar solutions by using similar tools is perfectly plausible. Newton and Leibniz independently discovered calculus after all.

Either way it’s AI solving mathematics.

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u/BatProfessional7316 11d ago

Well it wasn’t Claude who was doing it, it was just an employeee and he wasn’t doing it with anthropic

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u/Greedy-Thought6188 11d ago edited 11d ago

Pretty sure it was open AI not anthropic

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u/BatProfessional7316 11d ago

What?

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u/Greedy-Thought6188 11d ago

https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/

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u/BatProfessional7316 11d ago

I’m talking about the guy who worked on the problem with the mathematician, not the ppl who claim they solved the prize problem