Working with academic communities to build scientific understanding
We are announcing three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics about harmonic analysis, complexity theory, and quantum field theory.
TL;DR
- OpenAI announces three new AI-generated discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics.
- Collaborations with external experts are being formed to help understand and explain these complex results.
- The math discovery proves the local smoothing conjecture and Kakeya conjecture in all dimensions.
- The computer science discovery refutes the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH), a foundational conjecture in complexity theory.
- The physics discovery provides mathematically rigorous existence proofs for interacting quantum field theories, including QCD and a completion of the Standard Model.
- Different release strategies are being tested for each collaboration: releasing AI output directly, forming a group to explain the result, or deferring to a group on release.
- Collaborations are guided by principles of transparency, no academic credit for AI, recognition for collaborators' work, and independence.
- OpenAI is also providing funding for workshops and conferences to support the understanding and building upon these AI-generated results.