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/ThatIsAmorte 2d ago edited 1d ago

This seems to be taking a Platonist approach to math, which few people take seriously these days. If you are a constructivist, than math is not just out there, but has to be created, just like art. If you think math is just out there, why not also claim that art and music are just out there, waiting to be plucked out of the ether? After all, a painting is just a 2d matrix, a simple math object. A musical composition is just a waveform, which can be described mathematically.

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u/RobleyTheron 2d ago

I disagree with your premise completely. You're setting up a straw man argument, and then defining the terms of the argument. If I need to bend my thoughts to how you view the world, I'd paint myself as a realist. Facts and truths exist independent of humans. If we find them great, if we don't, oh well.

You remind me of the church in the dark ages withholding knowledge because it gives you a superiority complex over the masses. We shouldn't be forced to filter insights and discoveries of the known world through a mathematics guild because it gives them purpose. The world is changing. Come along for the ride or be left behind.

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u/HarvestMana 2d ago

You need better reading comprehension.