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pavel_lishintoday at 5:23 PM3 repliesview on HN

Is this the one that was allegedly based on someone else's actual work & prompts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605915

https://bsky.app/profile/quantian.bsky.social/post/3muyhwbcd...

https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf


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tedsanderstoday at 5:33 PM

Yes, that was the allegation last night.

I work at OpenAI, though not on the team that did this, and my understanding is:

- we decided to ask our model for Millenium problem solutions because of two reasons: (a) our new model was looking incredibly good and (b) we heard rumors that some Millenium problems had been solved and were curious if our models could solve them (the goal here was not to scoop any particular individuals and we were looking at many problems beyond these)

- we did not read any private chats (but of course the model was aware of prior research literature published to the internet)

- the proof generated by our model was very different from theirs and also goes far beyond the published literature

- we made an effort to jointly announce rather than immediately scoop (I understand Tristan was unhappy with the conversations; I know zero details here and I hope more is shared today)

Edit: Here's is Sebastian's take: https://x.com/SebastienBubeck/status/2097379411691516310?s=2...

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beeringtoday at 5:23 PM

That is addressed in the article.

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heaney-555today at 5:38 PM

Did you actually read the article and the substance of the solution?

>our proofs differ significantly and even the precise results proved are different in the Euler case (forced vs unforced)

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