Re:Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
by irthomasthomas on Saturday August 01, 2026 @07:07AM
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Why you think that?
Re:Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
by azan_ on Saturday August 01, 2026 @08:02AM
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I guess that's because there are serious problems on which many professional mathematicians worked on years. If it was just a matter of hiring an expert, they would've been solved long time ago.
Re:Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
by irthomasthomas on Saturday August 01, 2026 @08:07AM
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I guess expert+chatgpt beats chatgpt alone, so why not hire top experts to drive the search?
A couple small ones that I've seen (example here [0]), but not anything of the magnitude that OpenAI and Anthropic have put out. Likely just related to token limits.
> Another question I have is whether or not OpenAI 'simply' hired capable combinatorics researchers to work on problems, and they have, and the use of the model is incidental / secondary to their work.
I think their output has reached a level that precludes this possibility, but I of course don't have any hard proof.
[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1uxj3cy/after_openais...