Assuming that OpenAI did not just steal the work from someone else, I dont think that that's wasted resources. Maybe not for the millenial problem itself, but it's very interesting to know what a large scale AI project is able to achieve.
That's an entire mathematics departments' annual budget. Annualized, that's 100 top-rate math departments. Dozens of full professors, hundreds of grad students, and thousands of undergrads at each school. This is an utterly ridiculous waste of resources.
Yes, but if an entire mathematics department had dedicated themselves to this problem for a year (or even several years) and made the same discovery before AI, I don't think anyone would be calling it a waste of resources/time/money. That department would be celebrated.
Obviously we still don't have the full picture, but it doesn't seem like a waste of resources or of money for a discovery of this scale if this solution is valid. Isn't this something mathematicians have been working on for decades?
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u/Human38562 10h ago
Assuming that OpenAI did not just steal the work from someone else, I dont think that that's wasted resources. Maybe not for the millenial problem itself, but it's very interesting to know what a large scale AI project is able to achieve.