OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math

In Brief

“Hoisted by their ain GPTards.”

That’s however Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback aft OpenAI researchers did a triumph thigh implicit GPT-5’s expected mathematics breakthroughs.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, “this is embarrassing.”

The Decoder reports that successful a since-deleted tweet, OpenAI VP Kevin Weil declared that “GPT-5 recovered solutions to 10 (!) antecedently unsolved Erdős problems and made advancement connected 11 others.” (“Erdős problems” are famous conjectures posed by mathematician Paul Erdős.)

However, mathematician Thomas Bloom, who maintains the Erdos Problems website, said Weil’s station was “a melodramatic misrepresentation” — portion these problems were so listed arsenic “open” connected Bloom’s website, helium said that lone means, “I personally americium unaware of a insubstantial which solves it.”

In different words, it’s not close to assertion GPT-5 was capable to lick antecedently unsolved problems. Instead, Bloom wrote, “GPT-5 recovered references, which solved these problems, that I personally was unaware of.”

Sebastien Bubeck, an OpenAI researcher who’d besides been touting GPT-5’s accomplishments, past acknowledged that “only solutions successful the lit were found,” but helium suggested this remains a existent accomplishment: “I cognize however hard it is to hunt the literature.”

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