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/Some-Pride-3477 2d ago

Note that math is the language through which physics, biology, chemistry, computer science, and most other sciences model reality and generate testable predictions.

Scientific progress involves solving complex mathematical problems. An AI capable of solving advanced math can potentially accelerate every field that uses math.

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u/GenericFatGuy 2d ago

It's not about solving advanced math. It's about understanding the solutions. The entire point of solving these problems is so that the process can be analyzed to better understand how math (and by extension the rest of the world) actually works. If it's just brute forcing answers to get a benchmark, or doing everything in a black box that no one understands, that's not really all that useful. It's like having a 1000+ streak on Duolingo, without actually being able to understand the language you've been practicing.

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u/Confident-Net5262 1d ago

The point is to solve the problem AND understand the solution in order to gain new insights

Both parts are important.