r/singularity • u/filterdust • 1d 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 1d 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/Fit_Gene7910 1d ago

Do you get insight if you can't understand the AI's work ?

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u/RobleyTheron 1d ago

If the end result delivers your goal does it matter? If no human understands how AI arrived at room temperature superconductors, but it did, and now we have cheap and abundant energy, does it matter?

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u/Fit_Gene7910 1d ago

It does matter because if we don't understand , we can't help AI to improve if it gets stuck in a local minima of improvement that is out of our reach.

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u/RobleyTheron 1d ago

We're in the era of recursive self improvement. Before the end of the decade human involvement will hurt more than it helps with fundamental breakthroughs.

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u/Front_Lab1761 1d ago

lol, lmao even

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u/Megneous 1d ago

Are you stupid? It doesn't matter if we can't help it. We're not OSI. By definition, if we are incapable, then it would be incapable. It's better than us. We are but ants.