‘Immature playground boasting’: Mathematicians uneasy at OpenAI’s latest scalp
by Ian Sample Science editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#78BA9)
As OpenAI model cracks Millennium Prize Problem that puzzled experts for decades, many feel shocked at pace of change
It was a week that left mathematicians reeling. Hot on the heels of a flurry of cases of artificial intelligence furthering the field, OpenAI declared a major scalp: its latest AI model had cracked a Millennium Prize Problem, a puzzle with a $1m reward that had defied human brains for decades.
The achievement bore little resemblance to how mathematical problems normally fall. A near-trillion dollar private company had unleashed 10,000 agents - AI systems that carry out tasks autonomously - on the problem. The bill was estimated at $15m.
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