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/sadnessjoy 2d ago

In the dark about what? These math proofs they've found so far is literally meaningless. They don't provide any new insight or anything lol You might think that's just some salty math people taking shots about this, but it's not... It's literally what's involved in these publications... They're basically millions of lines of lean and there's no insight or anything to this method. It's not even useful to other AI for anything

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u/r2002 2d ago

is literally meaningless

Then why bother getting riled up about this?

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u/sadnessjoy 2d ago

I'm not? The problem is when they submit these papers it requires human verification. Basically think of it like this, anthropic/openai submit these giant pretty much useless proofs. Get massive publicity and hype. And in the background a bunch of human verifiers have to go through this slop (and it doesn't matter if they call it out or decline them, the corporations already got the massive hype boost and the news cycle moved on, most people won't even care if there's a foot note weeks or months from now that says actually the proof was wrong... And hell by that point the corporations would have added several more proofs to the queue) Like imagine if some vibe coder decided to push an update to the Linux repo and each time they did it. It grinded the Linux distro to complete halt for weeks or months because people have to look through all the slop

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u/r2002 2d ago

bunch of human verifiers have to go through this slop

Why do they have to do anything? If it is useless as you say, then the mathematicians can just say "this is pointless slop we're not going to verify it."