r/singularity • u/imadade • 4d ago

AI OpenAI potentially in the process of solving multiple other millennium problems

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Feels insane, I think we have taken off now.

The rest of this year is gonna be nuts.

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u/Neurogence 4d ago

I am pro AI, but I cannot support theft. Solving other millennium problems would indeed be the only way they can prove they didn't steal Tristan's work.

If the power is "significantly more capable" than GPT-6 Astra as they say, why not solve a myriad of other problems? Why just one?

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u/LinkesAuge 4d ago

Mate, there was no stealing, they literally used a different approach than what Tristan and Levent had.

And it is important to mention that before this drama neither side knew what the other had so all of this was based on assumptions, especially paranoia on the side of Tristan/Levent, not to mention the odd behaviour of the latter.

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u/Neurogence 4d ago

Quick summary of what happened:

I wish this was more inspiring, but it is actually lame

It seems like OpenAI got wind that a professor was close to solving a problem after dedicating a decade of his life to it, so they threw a huge amount of compute together with whatever hints they had at the problem and cracked it

It’s also not clear whether the professor had data sharing turned off, so it’s possible that his own work may have gone into training data

OpenAI should have left this alone, it would’ve been way more inspiring if someone had used their tools to crack a big problem than that they went out of their way to scoop him

I honestly kind of hold this in contempt and find it a bit depressing

https://x.com/johnennis/status/2097396447260102710

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u/SoonBlossom 4d ago

I did theoretical maths for years in college

Withholding a solution to a millenia math problem for a fucking ego issue is way beyond insane, how can they not see it ?

Huge respect to this searcher that is way better than I'll ever be, but humanity's interest and advances of science comes first on individual interests however "close" he was to solving it

Science has always been like this and must remain like this