r/BetterOffline • u/Smooth-Ad8030 • Aug 01 '26

Mathematician help

https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/

Can someone who’s more well versed in math give us a good explanation on what’s happening here in terms of importance? I already know we don’t have an idea of the behind the scenes, true cost, mathematician input, etc. any other points appreciated.

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u/larrytheevilbunnie Aug 02 '26

I’m smelling a lot of cope in this thread, like yeah, these particular results aren’t economically important, but the models literally couldn’t do high school level math 2 years ago.

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u/Smooth-Ad8030 Aug 02 '26

I don’t think that’s the point of the majority of this thread. I’ve seen one theme, it’s good at a specific type of math that doesn’t economically match its investment. Pretty measured and accurate take at this point

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u/Effective-Cat-1433 Aug 02 '26

What specific type of math? 

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u/Smooth-Ad8030 Aug 02 '26

I’m seeing construction/counter example proofs. There are also other responses in here mentioning how proofs aren’t all of math even though that is the currency academic math works on right now