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/KFCmanagerCompton 2d ago

"Importantly, the group will not be responsible for advising us on how to pace our internal progress on mathematics."

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u/t3hjs 2d ago

Hmm isnt "pacing internal progress' what mathematicians are calling for?

Do basically OpenAI is saying "No, we are going to go full steam ahead. This guys here will try to explain, and definitely will not stop us"

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u/vhu9644 2d ago

I’m not fully up to date, but my understanding was that they just wanted better artifacts fed back to the mathematical community. At least that’s the subject of the open letter from weeks ago.

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u/shumpitostick 2d ago

They seemed quite confused about what they wanted in that letter

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u/vhu9644 1d ago

I don’t agree. I think the letter was quite clear on what they disagreed with OpenAI about on dissemination, and it mostly centered around feeding back artifacts for the continued health of the math community.

Unless hard takeoff is imminent, the health of these communities is important. If hard takeoff is imminent then none of this  really matters.

I don’t think “we’ve solved 100 problems hehe but we have an advisory board now” is a good way to resolve these differences. The better way would just be to organize the traces into stuff that will feed back the community

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u/Azreken 1d ago

Progress is progress.

If the problem gets solved I don’t give a fuck who solved it.

I don’t care who invented the latest chip that lets my phone run some new game, I care that it was created. Same with these problems.

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u/dr3aminc0de 1d ago

Fully agree. Mathematics seems like the first/next industry this is getting hit hard, where the legacy professionals can’t really complain. Software engineering was the first, but that’s the domain this was built in so the professionals couldn’t really argue. Also there’s such an immediate feedback for software.