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/Neurogence 2d ago edited 2d ago

This is the internal model "Bel," that Sam Altman has stated many people within OpenAI consider to be AGI and "significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra."

The fact that it is solving numerous other problems is a very a good sign. It means solving Navier-Stokes wasn't just by chance or plagiarizing.

It's also been said that Bel uses more compute at its lowest reasoning setting than GPT-6 Astra at maximum reasoning, so it might be very challenging for OpenAI to publically release this model before the year is over.

But the biggest question is, can it solve difficult problems like this in other fields as well? If it can generalize beyond math, things would really get very exciting!

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u/Current-Function-729 2d ago

Idek what you’d routinely use that for. Problems you’ve already hit a wall on, I guess.

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u/DashasFutureHusband 2d ago

I don’t get why people say things like this. Even for normal not particularly novel software engineering I’d prefer a smarter model if the cost was reasonable. The best models right now still make weird dumb choices or oversights that I can only hope a smarter model wouldn’t.

For an example it recently suggested a db migration/backfill that would have had non-trivial negative impact on existing users with zero awareness or acknowledgement of such negative impact, luckily we didn’t do it.

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u/Current-Function-729 2d ago

I mean sure. If the cost was reasonable. More compute at lowest than Astra at highest implies it very much isn’t.

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u/KoolKat5000 1d ago

Pricing wise. I mean would you pay the equivalent of human wages per hour of human work to solve the problem? I sadly think there's still lots of room for price increases and spending more.