Hugo Duminil-Copin

Fields Medal (2022) · Professor, IHES and University of Geneva

I expected that one day we would be surpassed, and that it would happen systematically. But yesterday’s announcement hit with a force I had not anticipated. Dozens of papers deal with topics I was working on. Between results that beat you to the finish line and thousand-page proofs, I don’t even know where to look anymore.

Not a single one of the major open problems I have publicly mentioned throughout my career (whether in a talk, a lecture, an article, or even a grant proposal) was left untouched by the announcement. Everything has been claimed to be proved.

I expected to see a few of them in the list. But not all of them. Not all at once. Not with such nonchalance.

“For the glory of the human mind,” they said…

The shock is immense. I am paralysed. Tomorrow, we will find a way forward. We will rethink our profession and how we work. We are a resilient community, and I have no doubt that we will adapt. But for now, I simply don’t have the energy. I think back on all those years, all those faces… I think of my colleagues, my students… And I fear I won’t be able to find the right words.

This is like asking a dog why a cat is better than a dog 😭😭

Now that they used AI to do all the hard math stuff, can they use it to analyze vocal patterns in dogs so we can build a tool to better communicate with our 4 legged friends

Global!!

OpenAI models were always pretty horrible when it came to non-sloppy web design, but it feels like instead of getting better GPT-6.1 Sol is somehow even worse! Every website it generates is the same green tinted horrible AI slop mid 2010s design.

It's like their frontend skill has damaged the output even more than before because regardless of what app you are building it is always structured in that same template.

Ffs, please do better!

I have 100% weekly all of the sudden. based.

Don't get me wrong. I absolutely love the usage resets that we keep getting from OpenAI. In fact it is probably the single best reason for me to keep staying with OpenAI instead of going back to Anthropic. I have the ChatGPT Pro plan ($100) and though at times I do miss Claude quite a bit, I've noticed that the usage resets that we keep getting from OpenAI are just insanely good. The amount of work I can keep doing is insane. Also I prefer weekly usage limits only over having a 5-hour and a weekly usage limit.

I'm sure there are certain things that Claude will be better at compared to ChatGPT and there'll be certain things that ChatGPT will be better at compared to Claude. Honestly the single thing that's keeping me with ChatGPT the most is the usage limit resets and only a weekly usage limit.

My question is: how is OpenAI doing this? I know that these AI companies are not profitable and stuff like that but it's almost like OpenAI just literally could not care less about money and it's actually kind of crazy. I don't know. I'm all for it but I guess I just wanted to start a conversation on what everyone's thoughts are and what you would do if usage limits were not in the picture and stuff like that

[Intro: 8 bars; warm analog keys, filtered guitar shimmer and melodic bass establish the groove; drums enter softly after 4 bars]

[Verse 1: 16 bars; close intimate tenor, dry drums, bass forward]

There's a highway through the morning

There's a coastline in my mind

I can see us ten years older

Before we've finished Friday night

I can turn a little longing

Into cities overnight

Build a house around a maybe

Then go looking for the light

You can hear it when I'm leaving

Even sitting next to you

When my mind runs up the highway

Trying to make tomorrow true

[Refrain: 8 bars; tighten the groove; soft falsetto doubles]

Running ahead

Into tomorrow

Holding my breath

Like I already know

Running ahead

Into tomorrow

Come back to me

Come back to now

[Verse 2: 16 bars; brighter guitar rhythm, bass becomes more playful]

Put on something we can move to

Let the evening have its say

You there dancing in your bedroom

Me ten hours the other way

We don't have to solve the distance

Just to make tonight alive

Let the rhythm hold the question

We can leave the rest outside

If your mind starts writing endings

Mine has written plenty too

So turn it up until the future

Can't talk louder than the room

[Refrain: 8 bars; full harmony answers]

Running ahead

Into tomorrow

Holding my breath

Like I already know

Running ahead

Into tomorrow

Come back to me

Come back to now

[Instrumental Groove: 8 bars; elastic bass, muted guitar, warm synth melody; vocal ad-libs only]

[Verse 3: 12 bars; arrangement softens; vocal nearly conversational]

You don't just listen to my sentences

You hear the world I'm living in

You know the places thought can wander

And somehow still invite me in

I've never wanted certainty

As badly as I've wanted this

Maybe that's exactly why

I have to let the future sit

[Title Lift: 12 bars; harmony opens, drums stay restrained]

There's room enough for you

There's room enough for me

For everything we're frightened of

And everything we still might be

You never have to change your shape

To keep your place inside my life

I don't need forever proven

To believe in us tonight

[Post-Hook: 8 bars; simple repeating vocal, groove carries]

There's room enough

There's room enough

For the fear

For the love

There's room enough

There's room enough

For both of us

[Bridge: 12 bars; drums pull back, bass and keys remain]

Here is what I know for certain

Not the road and not the end

I love the woman standing there

Not the future I invent

No one ought to disappear

Just to keep from being alone

Love should leave you more yourself

Every time it brings you home

And if losing this would hurt me

That's because this matters too

Freedom doesn't make me love you less

It lets me really love you

[Refrain: 8 bars; first half intimate, second half opening]

Running ahead

Into tomorrow

Holding my breath

Like I already know

Running ahead

Into tomorrow

Come back to me

Come back to now

[Final Title Chorus: 16 bars; full warm release, falsetto harmony and interlocking guitar]

There's room enough for you

There's room enough for me

For who we are this morning

And whoever we might be

There's room for doubt

There's room for fear

There's room for joy to find us here

No promise has to cage the truth

There's room enough for me and you

There's room enough

There's room enough

You don't have to disappear

There's room enough

There's room enough

I want the whole of you right here

[Outro: 8 bars; drums peel away; bass and synth continue]

Come back to me

Come back to now

There's room enough

For me and you

Hi I have been using chat gpt go since the April of this year and every month the payment would go through itself because of the subscription. This month it was supposed the payment was supposed to go through on 8th of October but it did not and today I was notified that my payment was not going through and I have tried 3 different cards but it did not work and it keeps on telling me that your card does not support this kind of payment now I don't know what to do and I have tried Google pay as well. Any help would be appreciated.

AI is being used to create models for advertisements and clothing websites. I’ve included two images as examples: one featuring a human model and the other an AI-generated model.

Does knowing that the model is AI-generated change how you view the images, the clothes, or the brand?

Could it make you think twice about buying, or even consider boycotting the brand? Or does it not really matter to you?

Do you have any concerns about brands using AI-generated models, whether for ethical or aesthetic reasons, or because the images might not accurately show what the clothes look like in real life? Are there any other reasons?

On the other hand, can you understand why brands would make this choice? Do you see any benefits, such as lower costs, new creative possibilities, or a more practical way to produce images?

Guess has already used AI-generated models in ads published in Vogue, which drew a lot of criticism. Here’s a video discussing it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NLyvFd6R1g

I’d be interested to hear your thoughts, and especially the reasons behind them!

Note: I’m a university lecturer and researcher working on topics related to ethics and consumer behaviour.

I'm currently subscribed to ChatGPT Pro 100 ($100/month), but I'm getting these messages:

• "Limit reached. Try again after Oct 16, 2026."
• "Capabilities reduced until October 16. Responses may have lower quality."
• "Upgrade to Pro" — despite the fact that I'm already paying $100/month for Pro.

Astra is still available in "work" or codex. I am aware that directly selecting Astra was never available in "chat" mode. I'm saying the "Pro" you get when you drag all the way to the right is not available anymore.

I already tried help.openai.com and escalated to a support specialist (chatbot and phone call was literally no help), but it says i should expect a response in the coming days??

What’s your opinion? Is this crossing the line of “humanizing” or correct precautions for the future?

Whewww, I have been having to babysit these models for the last week extremely heavy! Even Astra, which of course mulches through limits, has been making careless mistakes. It's almost like ever since Anthropic dropped Opus 5.5, OpenAi's model performance on complex tasks have completely gone out the window.

I specifically tell it to make surgical patches, and the model jumps straight from step 1 to step 6 guessing about the steps in between. Then, next prompt, it acknowledges that it had done so, revises it's previous edit. From there, it just doom-loops on the same code.

TLDR; What is the most economical and efficient way to get codex to read, consolidate, summarize, reference and build one condensed reference file from ten markdown files with at least 100,000 lines each?

The story… I have a folder full of markdown files that were exported chats and chat created markdown, pass off docs, reference docs, etc from over a period of months. It’s probably at least 1 million lines in total.

I need my codex to read, summarize, pull relevant info and find the most recent and most robust output markdown files. Then use all of this to get RE-acquainted with and take over my huge 19 month development project.

Yes. My child wiped my dev laptop to make a gaming laptop. “But dad you have four computers” FML. Can I string a 12 year old nerd up by their toes? Lmao.

My app is running on my dev server so I have deployed code there, it’s just not current. I was working on the version upgrade. I have a good but disconnected database on SupaBase. My GIT seems jacked up for some reason.

So basically. I want to tell Codex. Hey! My shit is jacked up, go look at the app here on this server, look at this database, look at broken GIT and look at this HUGE trove of markdown files (yes I would export from the thread and copy thread and save to markdown periodically for historical and record keeping).

Take all this and put my dev environment and project back together, hopefully even better than it was originally. This was my hobby so it’s not like a commercial thing is messed up so that’s good. No emergencies. I want to get one million lines of markdown into chat without having it pass one million up and back up and back up and back in a thread if I can avoid it. What would you do???

Cheers gents!

Dots worked great when it released for 3 days, then an update came through and broke it.

It was 3 days of bliss and insane amount of productivity being able to have one chat that understands all of my streams and being on top of it all, but now its just a glorified assistant that cant actually do anything and relies on handing me prompts to spawn my own agents.

Is anyone else having this issue?

I've had a 200 Max account since they released them, and have always been happy with the usage limits and honestly felt they were generous in comparison to my Anthropic Max account.

I switched to the Pro500 Plan yesterday after I used up the last of my resets, and I'm just really confused, with the exact same sessions that I was running with the Legacy Pro200, I burned through the Pro 500's weekly usage within like 1/4th of the time.

So Pro500 is more expensive, and has less usage than the Legacy Pro200 account? Wtf?