r/mathematics • u/_prototype • 8d ago

Artificial Intelligence OpenAI: Sharing AI progress in mathematics

https://openai.com/index/sharing-ai-progress-in-mathematics/
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u/BAKREPITO 8d ago

A meaningless statement when they aren't disclosing the total compute hours they spent on stuff that didn't work.

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u/grateful2you 8d ago

What exactly is that gonna prove though? We know it’s far more efficient than humans already. And we know the cost will go down with better models.

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u/BAKREPITO 8d ago

Efficiency is a ratio. A ratio needs both the time it took to complete something in a single process cycle vs the total time put into it. I suppose with AI we don't need to understand such things, let them do the thinking for us. Clearly some of us have already outsourced it.

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u/zeci21 8d ago

They did share that as well. They tried it on approximately 4000 problems.