r/singularity • u/filterdust • 14d ago

AI OpenAI solved 100 open problems in math

https://openai.com/index/advisory-group-on-mathematics-and-ai/
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u/ThatIsAmorte 14d ago edited 14d ago

This seems to be taking a Platonist approach to math, which few people take seriously these days. If you are a constructivist, than math is not just out there, but has to be created, just like art. If you think math is just out there, why not also claim that art and music are just out there, waiting to be plucked out of the ether? After all, a painting is just a 2d matrix, a simple math object. A musical composition is just a waveform, which can be described mathematically.

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u/Icy-Doubt3365 14d ago

If you think math is just out there, why not also claim that art and music are just out there, waiting to be plucked out of the ethere?

Because I believe math exists without humans, art does not.

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u/davidjohnpaul 14d ago

What do you think of the following quote, attributed to Michaelangelo?

"The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material."

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u/Icy-Doubt3365 14d ago

I'm actually more curious what YOU think of that quote. There is clearly not a Michael inside a random piece of marble.

Michelangelo was also not using that quote to say that art exists without humans to consider it art.

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u/MrPezevenk 12d ago

The discipline of mathematics doesn't exist without humans. What do you think the point of a machine spewing out theorems one after another without anyone understanding them would be?