Mathematicians marvel, and grumble, at OpenAI’s trove of new results
The “slop drop” contains a number of groundbreaking proofs, but how it was generated remains unclear and contentious
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It’s been two days since OpenAI’s “slop drop” of AI-generated results on 372 open math and computer science problems. Scientists are just beginning to parse through the heap and pick out the most exciting breakthroughs in their own fields.
It will be months, perhaps years, before we understand just how much novel mathematics was added to the literature this week, but everyone agrees it’s been a week without precedent. “Yesterday will be the day when a new era of math and mathematical physics began,” Harvard University mathematician Michael Douglas told Scientific American on Tuesday. It was an…
