OpenAI Just Claimed a Huge Math Discovery. Some Academics Are Crying Foul
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A landmark announcement by the frontier AI lab has been overshadowed by accusations of impropriety.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/9497419

The Millennium Problems are a set of the most important open problems in mathematics. so far only 2 have been solved: the Poincare Conjecture by Grigori Perelman in 2010 and today OpenAI released this https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/

The only problem is, that their AI didn’t even come up with the solution itself. Mathematicians working on the same problem recently made big strides in solving the Navier Stokes equations, and their chat logs were scraped and used in training data before they could release the proof themselves.

Here is the unpaywalled statements of the Mathematician: https://mastodon.social/@tristanbuckmaster/117233413705701198

Western AI companies have been tackling a bunch of open problems and techbro chuds cannot shut up about it, this is just Marketing and the fact they have to steal real people’s work to do so just proves it. They really want that IPO moneyyy capitalist-laugh

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    16 hours ago

    Steal their work? well, but mathematician worked a lot of years on the problem without a solution, means that their work wasn’t correct. Apart scientific papers are accessible by everyone, not only AIs. Maybe the mathematicians have to think a little more about teamwork, storing their work locally or encrypted, instead claims about copyright and AI stealing their work. But the capabillity of AIs is to be able to find interrelations between millons of datas in hours, something for what humans need decades to do the same. That is the point and also the danger of AI, it get the data it needs from everywhere and web content is open, AI don’t have any ethics or respect of copyrights, all web content is information as is. All you put online is public (or everything online) by definition, there isn’t any copyright to avoid it.

    • Urist@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 minute ago

      The original team had used AI to solve the problem. However, they did not want to publish AI slop (think one of the authors actually described their initial proof as such, which is hilarious in hindsight). Then, the not so open to anything but stealing, openai stole their almost finished work and used tons of compute to finish it.

      Your reply is incoherent and out of touch with the reality of what happened.