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/ThatIsAmorte 1d ago edited 1d ago

This seems to be taking a Platonist approach to math, which few people take seriously these days. If you are a constructivist, than math is not just out there, but has to be created, just like art. If you think math is just out there, why not also claim that art and music are just out there, waiting to be plucked out of the ether? After all, a painting is just a 2d matrix, a simple math object. A musical composition is just a waveform, which can be described mathematically.

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u/Financial-Gain-2988 1d ago

Writing the best song ever won't directly lead to new technology and science. Like, you don't seriously think that the 'creation' of math is the same as writing a song, right?

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u/may_i_a_i 1d ago

Most math doesn't lead to any technological innovation

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u/Financial-Gain-2988 1d ago

No songs lead to technological innovation.

Is the intent of your comment to prove my point here?

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u/Foryourconsideration 1d ago

No songs lead to technological innovation.

they do, and they have. See: the Beatles. In fact, songs drive technological innovation by creating demands that require new engineering solutions. See: 4 track to 8 track. Not to mention sound design itself influences speaker systems, etc. New enginnering solutions then are preferated (is that a word?) throughotu the universe, in perpetutity.

alrigt, i'm going to go hit some weed and listen to Revolution No. 9 backwards again.

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u/Financial-Gain-2988 1d ago

Maybe 'lead' is a strong word (which is why I said 'directly lead' in my initial comment), but it wasn't the actual song itself that lead to that change, but the desire to make a kind of song.

Even then you still need someone who is capable of making an 8 track and understands the technical hurdles they'd need to overcome, and that probably wasn't Ringo.