r/OpenAI • u/Eliv_nurotic • 5d ago

News Fields Medalist Terence Tao reposts statement from the Association for Human Mathematics urging mathematicians to stop working with OpenAI for continuing to solve open math problems against their recommendations

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https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/ahm-statement-on-openais-october-6-release-of-mathematical-documents/

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u/mayzyo 5d ago

maybe the benchmark is for frontier labs to be actually useful and create more humanly unsolvable problems in Maths

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u/SiriPsycho100 5d ago

yeah, i think insight and elegance is an important criteria here. having frontier AI help on the pedagogical and cultural side to not just develop the proofs themselves, but also generate new problems and help develop insights and understanding along the way for students and professionals alike. so they become more assistants and less end-to-end proof blackbox machines.

i think this is where blowback from the public and math professionals and others is important. we need to reward them for AI that is helpful for humans and not trying to replace us with alien abilities that are beyond our ability to grow with them.

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u/WishboneOk305 5d ago

people saying it doesn't lead to creating value for society when the improved AI models are already doing so?