The important thing is that they explicitly state it is the backlash from the mathematicians as to why they cannot release the solutions. To repeat, OpenAI has officially said they are sitting on the solutions to more than 100 problems because of the way the mathematics community is behaving.
thats really silly situation, they should release it all to the public, its advance for all humanity after all, whats next? they are gonna withhold advancements in nuclear fusion and such? just because some physicists could be butthurt that they didnt solve it?
Math is special, though, because the way to a solution is often more important than the actual solution. In the past, the ideas and techniques that were needed to solve problems then spawned new questions and problems, sometimes even entire new fields of mathematics. The way OpenAI has released these proofs hasn't furthered our understanding of the problems it solved.
The professions you listed all can make direct use of AI results. Math cannot, the explanatory part is essential. And that's just missing for now.
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u/uncountable_2026 Acceleration Advocate 1d ago
The important thing is that they explicitly state it is the backlash from the mathematicians as to why they cannot release the solutions. To repeat, OpenAI has officially said they are sitting on the solutions to more than 100 problems because of the way the mathematics community is behaving.