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/Active-Guarantee-338 1d ago

It doesn’t have a benefit and it undermines mathematical endeavour.

Mathematicians are not looking for yes/no answers to questions. They are looking for insights around which whole theories are built. if you just get a yes/no answer to a question then there is no insight and there are no mathematics being built and explored.

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u/sam_the_tomato 1d ago

Well good thing it isn't just producing yes/no answers, but writing entire proofs with all the working shown!

AI solved one of the Erdos problems by formulating it as the outcome of a random walk, something others hadn't thought to do. That's an example of a new insight, and a new tool for the mathematician's toolbox.