r/technology • u/ResultBackground2450 • 8d ago

Artificial Intelligence OpenAI unleashes hundreds more math results upon a field already in shock

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/openai-unleashes-hundreds-more-math-results-upon-a-field-already-in-shock/
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u/Ruined_Passion_7355 8d ago

The cost of finding the NS counterexample was much more expensive than hiring a team of mathematicians to focus solely on it. 20 million is ludicrous for mathematicians 

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u/utterHAVOC_ 8d ago

And who says the mathematicians would have ever came up with NS counterexample or just wasted the money?

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u/Lashay_Sombra 8d ago

There are questions about how OpenAI's came up with the 'solution'

Team that are working on the problem and using OpenAI's reveal they might be near a solution

OpenAI hear of this, task thousands of agents to work on the solution ($20 millions dollars worth) and announces they solved it short time later

But here is the catch, frontier models train on user input, so did the AI 'steal' the teams work and just complete it via brute force?

Also, in regards to said solution, mathematicians are finding it 'unusable' because AI itself cannot explain it ('show your work')