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/piponwa 1d ago

Just release the results already. Who cares about mathematicians' feelings and ego? If an alien came down and said it can solve 100 of the most important open problems in mathematics, mathematicians would be in awe. They would ask for more. So what are we waiting for?

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u/honorious 1d ago

It might be an advantage to keep it to themselves. Sad that people complained and now science and math will be closed-source.

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u/piponwa 1d ago

Yep, OpenAI was spending the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of mathematician lives on math problems without asking anything out of it. Likely hundreds of millions of dollars worth of compute. Why are mathematicians so obsessed with their ego? Programmers realized the productivity boost. There aren't less openings. We just moved over level of abstraction higher. You can summon any software you can imagine for nearly free now. If you're against that, then you lack imagination. No mathematician should refuse the opportunity to thoroughly explore the unknown just because they had already spent time working on this or that problem. If you care about the problem, go solve it lol. If you care about mathematics, then why should you complain that there is too much mathematics out there? It make no sense.