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‘A CHILLING EFFECT’: How OpenAI’s massive math breakthrough is ‘DESTROYING’ early careers (www.youtube.com)
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This past week, OpenAI dumped a staggering trove of answers to elusive math problems solved by its internal artificial intelligence models – the mathematics world isn’t happy about it. “What are they trying to achieve? I don’t know. They’re just destroying early-career mathematicians with a PR stunt,” says NYU math professor Tristan Buckmaster. Buckmaster and his collaborator Levent Alpöge had made significant progress on solving an historic math equation before OpenAI’s model beat them to it. They’ve “destroyed the whole incentive system for science and mathematics.”

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[–] 11 points 1 day ago (1 child)

Feels so fake, a math problem, like which one.. and solved? In what way, what are we even talking about, it seems to me just a bunch of buzzwords put together.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 day ago

    So yeah I was completely right..

    They didn't solve anything, they just stole the data from a team and elaborated the data in a very very efficient way, which is way faster than humans could.

    First of all: The main data was done by humans, OpenAI just acted as a calculator.

    Second: The repository of OpenAI makes no sense since some results are, again, just stolen data with no actual added argument.

    And third: AI here is not replacing, it's just causing damage to people's career, cause scammers use AI to steal data from actual scientists.

    If and when AI will be an available tool like a calculator to every team, everyone can speed up their game at the same rate; what we're watching here is just humans being humans in a capitalistic society: Scammers see a new advantage, scammers use the advantage early before it gets regulated.

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