This technical acclaim contrasts with vocational distress, as about 80% of community reactions expressed anger over the delivery of the results. Fields Medalist Hugo Duminil-Copin told an Oct. 8 seminar that the AI's systematic mining of roughly 350 major problems represented the total automation of discovery and was an attempt to "massacre" human mathematicians. Duminil-Copin reported that his PhD students and postdocs are in a "state of total panic" regarding the future of the profession.
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Mathematicians Call OpenAI Math Proofs Most Important Day in Field History
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Specialists examining OpenAI's Oct. 6 release of mathematical proofs reported that almost every solution provided was technically impressive, even for problems long considered unsolvable. The solutions cover breakthroughs in several fields, including the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis and Hilbert's 10th problem over Q, which some researchers previously described as science fiction.
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