OpenAI reports three major scientific discoveries
The Verge: OpenAI announces three big science discoveries and a new way to work with academics
Less than a month after its mass release of hundreds of manuscripts that it said contained solutions to long-standing mathematics questions, OpenAI is back with three more "major" discoveries in math, computer science, and physics. What's different this time is the choice to have external experts that OpenAI describes as "shepherds" guiding the results in computer science and physics, while for the math problem it says that they advised it to release the AI output for researche
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OpenAI announced three major scientific discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics, continuing work it began less than a month earlier when it released hundreds of manuscripts with solutions to long-standing mathematics questions. This time, OpenAI used a new approach by having external experts serve as "shepherds" to guide and verify the results, particularly for the computer science and physics breakthroughs. The approach reflects advice from a panel of math advisers, though that same panel cautioned against certain practices like giving certain people early access to results, recommending instead that AI labs release output on scholarly repositories with formalized proofs and other supporting information. The three discoveries include a proof of the local smoothing conjecture in mathematics, a refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis in computer science, and a mathematical proof related to quantum field theories in physics.
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