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Posted by jonluca 13 hours ago

Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics(openai.com)
Related:

The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251661

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metalsiliconYT 12 hours ago|
OpenAi needs to stop trying to please everyone. Just release the findings and give all the credit to your models/collaborators.
sebzim4500 12 hours ago||
They have released them, they are just also hiring mathematicians to clean them up in parallel.
T-A 12 hours ago||
We reached out to external experts and asked them to act as shepherds, organizing groups to understand the new results. They advised three different release strategies: [...] For the physics result, form an external group of collaborators and defer to them on the release of materials. [...] The group requests that all communications with any and all members of the group regarding this effort be directed to the following email account: YANGMILLS4D@gmail.com.
karmasimida 12 hours ago||
Well, they are also not fully sure they got it right.
brcmthrowaway 10 hours ago||
I'm too dumb for this.. but does this mean PKI is doomed?
perching_aix 8 hours ago|
no
kylehotchkiss 6 hours ago||
Could these same questions have been solved if mathematicians had most of the GPU and memory in the world accessible to them via another interface?
1ahsgt 12 hours ago||
I wonder how many prompts for proof approaches they stole for these. Nothing on how many tokens were burned.

Proud to funnel money through the Simons Foundation, which is an AI booster itself and completely aligned with OpenAI.

They make it very hard to enjoy a single result with the business and the politics being so dirty.

Kotlopou 12 hours ago||
"In our view, these manuscripts are best understood as a form of raw research data."

They are staying on top of the exact formulations that spread like memes. I think this one was unfortunate. It's an analogy for a new type of thing that stops attempts to figure out what thing that is.

That said, uh, let's go? Let's see if OpenAI earns some goodwill here. It probably can't go worse than the last math drop!

vatsachak 11 hours ago|
It is raw research data though. Human math is way more refined. LLMs are superhuman at deduction, yet cannot create their own pre-training (where most learning happens) data.
esalman 13 hours ago||
Working with academic communities lol.

I looked over the announcement for any substantial contribution, and found they're donating $5 million to a research foundation.

$5 million might sustain 5-10 PhD students for 5 years.

Maybe it's just me but I think they should contribute more in exchange for forcing the scientific community into paying for tokens to generate slop and then pouring their time into verifying or falsifying the slop.

quantumspandex 12 hours ago|
No one "forces" anyone to verify it.
LPisGood 12 hours ago|||
I said the same thing in another thread and someone compared it to no one forcing you to own a smart phone. I will preempt that argument by saying the community is motivated to verify these results because they are important to the field.
esalman 11 hours ago|||
That means there's no crisis in mathematics after all, right?
eluru 5 hours ago||
Another nail in the P not equal NP theory, imagine if AI ends up destroying encrypting lol
conartist6 1 hour ago||
Go fuck yourselves
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