Re:OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that ...
by HarHarVeryFunny on Sunday October 19, 2025 @10:02AM
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> GPT-5 had only surfaced existing research that Bloom had missed
So GPT-5 didn't derive anything itself - it was just an effective search engine for prior research, which is useful, but not any sort of breakthough whatsoever.
* OpenAI researchers claimed or suggested that GPT-5 had solved unsolved math problems, but in reality, the model only found known results that were unfamiliar to the operator of erdosproblems.com.
* Mathematician Thomas Bloom and Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis criticized the announcement as misleading, leading the researchers to retract or amend their original claims.
* According to mathematician Terence Tao, AI models like GPT-5 are currently most helpful for speeding up basic research tasks such as literature review, rather than independently solving complex mathematical problems.