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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[–] 4 points 17 hours ago

Maybe. But it's not as if all the LLM companies don't have a history of making things up out of whole cloth to make their products seem more useful for real-world problems than a puddle of vomit.

"We solved a millennium problem" sounds impressive until you find out they just stole it and then pushed the one who deserves the credit to cut out the other one who deserves credit. So what are we going to find out about the other 722 that makes it clear the whole story was a scam?

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