alt Hacker News'Breathtaking,' 'Devastating': Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release
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marojejian • today at 4:50 PM
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/science/mathematicians-re...
>If a human did this, it would be an instant Fields Medal, no questions asked.
- Alex Kontorovich, chair of the department of mathematics at Rutgers
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novaRom • today at 4:54 PM
I wonder how many chat logs they did use in model's training data? If model consumes human’s reasoning (the chat logs) and then presents results as its own, it's a kind of parasite right?
Harvesting collective output of human consciousness to build AI that then replaces the very people who provided the input.
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ChrisArchitect • today at 4:51 PM
flounderXM • today at 4:52 PM
Is it paywalled just for me?
While I see lots of discussion about AI solving these problems, I feel like there's a more sinister undercurrent that's is less discussed - about who did the solving. It wasn't academics empowered by AI, but OpenAI themselves.
I feel like it's a sign of what's to come - large AI companies with resources academia never had, at some point deciding that selling access to AI is not as important as just doing the research themselves with models inaccessible to anyone else. The end game is all scientific advancement will be done by one or two companies, who will reap all the profits. Why would they give access to a model that develops a cure for cancer when they could develop the cure themselves and get all the money?
(Kind of like Amazon coming out with their own products - use the greater community for ideas, then become a competitor at a scale they often cannot match).