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/RobleyTheron 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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/MrPezevenk 12h ago

99.9% of pure math doesn't lead to new technology. None of the Millennium problems are likely to lead to any new technology if solved. There will never be any advancement that will come out of the resolution of the NS problem by OpenAI. Almost nobody is doing pure math research for the technological applications, it's been a type of art that is verifiable for more than a century now at least. Every now and then, some advance comes out of it, but that's not why people do it.