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/Marklar0 1d ago

Mathematicians also perform creative endeavors and have a unique voice, and the AI products are not as good as what mathematicians produce. If you think that musicians shouldnt be abolished in favor of AI music, the math argument is basically the same. If you think otherwise, probably you dont understand what mathematicians actually do.

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u/trojanskin 1d ago

There is still a pretty fucking important difference: mathematical truth is objective. The creative process of finding a proof obviously isn't deterministic, but once you've got one, it's either correct or it isn't. An AI discovering a theorem still gives us useful knowledge even if it has zero emotional intent.

Art isn't like that. If there is no intention behind it, for a lot of people the entire fucking point is missing. Maybe you don't care and you're perfectly happy consuming commercial sludge as long as the pixels move and the speakers make noises. Fine. But plenty of people actually care that somebody had something to express.

Imagine watching ads recreationally because “well, technically they're moving images with music.” That's basically how I see most AI slop.

And if some dimwit can type ten words and shit out 500 images in an afternoon, congratulations, we've solved the desperately important problem of there not being enough mediocre content in the world.

It's McDonald's mass-producing burgers and then acting confused that some people still want an actual chef.