He was close to a huge math breakthrough. Then he got scooped by AI.
Tristan Buckmaster thought he was on the verge of the most important discovery of his mathematical career when he heard that ChatGPT maker OpenAI was interested in the same problem — and had launched an intense effort to solve it, too.
TL;DR
- Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster was pursuing a potentially career-defining discovery.
- He discovered that OpenAI was also targeting the same mathematical problem.
- OpenAI launched a significant effort to solve the problem.