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OpenAI released 722 preprints on October 6 that reportedly solve long-standing mathematical problems, including a 50-year theoretical barrier for multiplying n-digit integers in time less than n log n and an improvement to the Fourier transform algorithm. The results include a proof of the Riemann hypothesis described by Oxford mathematician James Maynard as the best headline result in its field for a century, though some submissions were criticized as incomprehensible or containing errors. Former OpenAI researcher Scott Aaronson called the breakthroughs an "asteroid" hitting the mathematics world, and the model used may be available to regular subscribers within a few months.
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- SOURCE@mtslive“This is an asteroid that has landed on our world. People are in different stages of denial, grief, bargaining, acceptance.”x.com
- SOURCE@mtslive“What I don’t think we get to do is declare, well, the AI companies have to stop doing this, and no one’s allowed to do this.”x.com
- SOURCE@miniapeur“Fields medallist Hugo Duminil-Copin was deeply shaken by OpenAI’s release of more than 700 AI-generated mathematical manuscripts”x.com
- SUPPORT@newsfromscience“Within analytic number theory, it’s obviously the best headline result for the past 100 years in the field.”x.com
- SUPPORT@jlippincott“Mathematicians bursting into tears because someone else did math problems is contemptibe.”x.com
- SUPPORT@garymarcus“see how OpenAI is once again flouting ethical norms”x.com
- SUPPORT@hesamation“some mathematicians may now keep their research problems to themselves rather than share them publicly”x.com
- SUPPORT@nptacek“the next step in acceptance is mourning the lost life you thought you were going to have”x.com