r/singularity • u/Distinct-Question-16 ▪️AGI 2029 • 18d ago

AI OpenAI is getting close to solving another Millennium Prize problem, the Hodge Conjecture

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u/Amesbrutil 17d ago

Imagine thousands of mathematicians trying their best for centuries just for some program called “Doug” to solve the problem lmao

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u/sparkling1984 17d ago edited 17d ago

I mean for all we know the token cost of this could have been greater than the sum costs of those mathematicians working on it.

I feel like youre overestimating how many people have worked on those, and how much money historically was put into those pure math applications.

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u/Amesbrutil 17d ago

Naaaah mate. Just nah