OpenAI Published Hundreds of Mathematical Results This Month, Slowing Scientists’ Review

    In recent months, OpenAI has published hundreds of mathematical results obtained using artificial intelligence. Sharing information so rapidly has made it difficult for mathematicians to review and understand it in a timely manner. The company’s CEO, Sam Altman, said he understood researchers’ concerns. Nevertheless, OpenAI does not want to stop sharing the results.    Mathematicians say the results lack sufficient references, explanations, and verification. OpenAI has shared hundreds of mathematical results this month alone. Many of them were accompanied only by brief text, making the papers difficult to understand. Scientists spend considerable time checking the proofs and determining what they mean.    On the “Cheeky Pint” podcast released Thursday, Altman said sharing fundamental scientific knowledge with the public was more important than the resulting challenges. At the same time, he acknowledged that the way the results are shared needs to be improved. OpenAI has announced 3 major breakthroughs in mathematics, physics, and computer science. However, details of the result related to Yang-Mills theory have not been shared. The company said this was based on the recommendation of experts it selected.    According to Altman, the company has other mathematical results in addition to hundreds of published proofs. He said the work got out of control for a while, but that this was done deliberately to test the limits of artificial intelligence models. Employees gave the models the most difficult problems in an internal “Model Name-Hold My Beer” channel. The goal was to see how successfully the models could solve these tasks.    OpenAI has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on solving mathematical problems. Altman estimates that approximately $10 million (17 million manats) was spent on solving the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the famous Millennium Prize Problems. Such extensive financial resources have raised concerns among some scientists that they will be unable to compete with large artificial intelligence laboratories. Altman confirmed that the company also has other results that have not yet been disclosed.