Ryan Williams: Impagliazzo, Paturi and I will organise an open, independent examination of OpenAI’s claimed ETH refutation
Ryan Williams @rrwilliamsXImportance: historic (5 of 5)
Why it matters
First-hand statement by the MIT complexity theorist co-leading the review of OpenAI’s ETH claim, with ETH’s originators; ~2.26M views on the first post (fxtwitter, Oct 27), the most-viewed post on the claims.
Summary
Four-post thread at 21:35 UTC on Oct 26, minutes after OpenAI’s announcement. Views on Oct 27 (fxtwitter): 1/4 ~2.26M, 2/4 ~205k, 3/4 ~201k, 4/4 ~264k.
Archived text
An internal model at OpenAI has produced a claimed refutation of ETH! Russell Impagliazzo, Mohan Paturi, and I have been asked to help organize an open and independent examination of this claim. 1/4
We’ve signed no NDAs and will receive no compensation, so we are free to share our ongoing findings with the community, which we intend to do throughout the process. We’ve asked OpenAI to publicly release ASAP all their raw data regarding ETH, including PDFs and Lean source. 2/4
We have also asked OpenAI to commit to sponsoring a conference for the benefit of the entire community affected by this work. They agreed to both. 3/4
Our letter to the community invites ideas for organizing this effort and, separately, for addressing the broader questions raised by AI-generated results: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1adB0IhJgLzsmbfCgoLrtoJTjnlPf74UnyjMo35P5JHo/edit?usp=sharing OpenAI’s announcement is here: https://openai.com/index/building-scientific-understanding-with-academic-communities/