Sam Altman sympathizes with mathematicians, but says OpenAI’s math onslaught won’t stop
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TL;DR
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledges the company's AI-generated math discoveries have left mathematicians bewildered.
- Altman believes the public's right to scientific knowledge outweighs the disruption caused by OpenAI's releases.
- Critics have pointed to inadequate attribution, lack of context, and insufficient verification in OpenAI's announcements.
- OpenAI is facing criticism for allegedly gatekeeping research, specifically regarding a breakthrough in Yang-Mills theory.
- Altman confirmed that OpenAI has many more mathematical discoveries beyond those already released.
- The company has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on mathematical problems, including around $10 million on the Navier-Stokes solution.
- Altman described an internal Slack channel used to test AI models on the hardest problems.