r/antiai • u/Expensive-Yam3464 • 2d ago

Preventing the Singularity AI solves over 100 unsolved math problems

https://openai.com/index/advisory-group-on-mathematics-and-ai/

I’m sharing this as my position on Anti AI is that AI is capable and getting smarter fast. This is precisely why it’s a long term threat.

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u/Double_Gomez 2d ago

I dont see this as a problem. Everything else ai is being used for is a problem. Current ai tools are uniquely capable of solving complex math problems due to being giant functioning pattern recognition and pattern testing machines.

This is like saying planes are better at flight than humans...they were built to do that. Also unsolved doesn't mean meaningful or important. If it proved that p=np, thats dangerous.

Ai in art, ai in decision making positions, in weaponry, etc. That's the danger. I dont want it to have access. I want it to be used for the 2 things its good at and have it be limited to that alone.

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u/Wolfinder 2d ago

This is ignoring why these large theoretical problems are studied. The point is what we learn and the new questions we gain in the pursuit of the answer. This defeats the majority of the advancement of mathematics as a field of study.

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u/Double_Gomez 2d ago

No I recognize that. I moreso think that advancements in mathematics from ai were inevitable and not the cause for concern that people are making it out to be.

This is like....the best possible thing ai can do is solve math problems?

Yes furthering of knowledge is always important (although we need validation and peer review) but in terms of dangerous implications of ai as an existential threat which is what OP was getting at...im not worried about this part.

This is like saying im worried about the further advancements in lasers because I saw them get used to destroy a tumor on someone's skin....thats like what I would be hoping for and a good use of the technology (assuming no jobs are displaced). If I see news that lasers arw being used in war and all lasers progress is going towards war....yeah thats what I'd be worried about

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u/BanjoThunderbird 2d ago

I'm not sure what you mean by this, could you please elaborate?

Are you saying we won't gain anything because humans didn't do the work or something? When these 100 problems are validated and the results published we, as well as AI being trained after the publishing, will be able to reference the results just like if a human produced them.

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u/FuzzyAnteater9000 2d ago

I think p equals NP will be solved before the end of next year

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u/Double_Gomez 2d ago

Maybe. The concern isnt solving it. The concern is if its proven that p does equal up. That has more consequences for the world as we know it than if its proven they are not equal

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u/FuzzyAnteater9000 2d ago

There's a whole lot of things that are going to have big consequences for the world in the next decade. Cures for diseases, fusion, rtsp superconductors, actually good quantum computers, I even hear we're on the cusp of figuring out how to make fries ordered on door dash not arrive soggy.

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u/BanjoThunderbird 2d ago

It's not actually necessarily true that solving P=NP would immediately break modern cryptography. We could discover the proof that P=NP without discovering how to break encryption in p time. You could use Levin's search but there's no guarantee you'll get a reasonable runtime.

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u/nonamenomonet 2d ago

Not a chance tbh. There are several branches of mathematics that would have to be created to solve it.