OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again
>[C]ompany representatives assured attendees [OpenAI] would not release the solutions all at once—an assurance OpenAI spokesperson Lindsay McCallum says the company is “not aware of”—and, worried by how the community might react, sought advice on how to publish the findings.
>"We are working to responsibly release the next math results from our model, drawing on advice and public recommendations from the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence at the Institute for Advanced Study to inform how we release these results. We have not set a release time,” said McCallum.
Of course, just hours after this article was published, OpenAI dumped 377 "proofs" on github. But don't worry about the burden created by dumping 377 slop papers on weary mathematicians laps for them to make sense of. OpenAI has it covered:
>To promote scientific transparency and openness, we are also publishing additional details about how we obtained the results in the repository. These include 10 summaries of the model’s reasoning, estimations of compute spent in terms of Pro usage on ChatGPT, and statistics about the number of attempted problems.
Wow, that will be really helpful! And they didn't even mention that they also included 10 (excerpts) of the original prompts!
Another take on the whole mess: https://gizmodo.com/openai-dumps-377-new-math-results-on-github-publishes-hand-wringing-blog-post-2000822613
