The move follows a lapped relationship with the academic community, highlighted by the September publication of a Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize solution and an open letter signed by 25 Fields medalists opposing the use of unsolved problems as AI benchmarks. Although OpenAI met with 40 mathematicians in August and allegedly promised not to release all findings at once, a company spokesperson denied knowledge of any such agreement.
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OpenAI Releases Hundreds of Unsolved Math Solutions on GitHub
AI14 days ago
A flurry of activity has hit academic publishing today as researchers rush to post their results before the AI lab OpenAI uploads a large volume of work to GitHub, Wired reports. The company plans to release proofs for more than 100 long-standing open math problems in a single dump, some of which are described as having high importance. This has forced mathematicians to publish papers overnight to establish priority and avoid being scooped by the AI-generated results.
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