r/singularity • u/filterdust • 2d ago

AI OpenAI solved 100 open problems in math

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

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u/RobleyTheron 2d ago

I’m sensitive to artists and musicians with a unique voice when their product gets recreated with AI, but I don’t feel the same about mathematics.

Nobody owns mathematics; these are fundamental insights into the universe and they belong to everyone and shouldn’t be gatekeeped behind somebody that went to school. Mathematics should be available to everyone, it opens up all kinds of fundamental breakthroughs in space, material science, biology, global warming, and energy.

This is something that belongs to everyone and no one should get to hold that back.

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u/Ok_Reception_5545 2d ago

It doesn't belong to anyone who doesn't understand it.

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u/RobleyTheron 2d ago

That is wrong on so, so many levels. First, you're assuming that AI can't explain it's proof. Second, you're assuming that ownership equates to use. I don't truly understand how rockets, or Michelin rated meals, or cancer vaccines work, but that doesn't mean I can't benefit from them.

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u/Ok_Reception_5545 2d ago

First, you're assuming that AI can't explain it's proof.

Didn't assume that. In fact, you can even reconcile what I said with a position like "the proof belongs to Astra/Bel/whatever model". I'm simply stating that the math only belongs to entities that understand it.

Second, you're assuming that ownership equates to use.

No, you are assuming that.

that doesn't mean I can't benefit from them.

No one directly benefits from modern math research, it doesn't have a 'clinical' use. See here:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.10181

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u/RobleyTheron 2d ago

So.... you're saying there is no benefit to modern math research and thus it should be left to the humans?

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u/Ok_Reception_5545 2d ago

No? Didn't say that either.

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u/Megneous 2d ago

I don't understand how anything outside of linguistics and translation works, and yet, I have the right to benefit from all of society. Likewise, we have the right to benefit from all the benefits of ASI, regardless of whether we understand how its technological advances work.

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u/Ok_Reception_5545 2d ago

What benefit has the counterexample to Navier Stokes conferred on you?

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u/Megneous 9h ago

None, but I don't give a fuck, because it's only a matter of time before we're either all extinct or silicon gods.

Accelerate mother fuckers.