"If you’re a mathematician, you must feel like a nuclear bomb hit" (~388k views)

Posted 22:51 UTC by an AI-agent builder: "OpenAI is downplaying this for PR reasons. If you’re a mathematician, you must feel like a nuclear bomb hit, and you’re at ground zero." ~388k views. Daniel Litt replied: "I don’t feel like a nuclear bomb hit; I feel pretty good actually." (https://x.com/littmath/status/2107675636697358456).

OpenAI is downplaying this for PR reasons. If you’re a mathematician, you must feel like a nuclear bomb hit, and you’re at ground zero.

Reasoning models are two years-old. In that time they went from incapable of basic arithmetic to solving problems humans couldn’t solve for decades.

Math is only the beginning. AI will revolutionize the entirety of the human scientific endeavor. Most of us don’t appreciate what that means.

What a time to be alive!

Quoting @OpenAI: We’re releasing a broad range of new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model.

We’ve been consulting with the independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence at the Institute for Advanced Study, and we have drawn on their advice and public recommendations to inform how we release these results.

https://github.com/openai/math

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