24 Fields Medal winners accuse OpenAI of undermining mathematics
Top mathematicians are outraged by OpenAI's methods
In an open letter published on September 11th, 24 Fields Medal winners — the field's equivalent of Nobel laureates — warned that OpenAI's methods could ruin the foundations of mathematics. The letter, at mathandai.org, follows an apparent AI maths breakthrough that has stirred controversy over how the discipline should work.
Not since Socrates complained that the written word might make people lazy about remembering things has there been such an outpouring of angst against a new technology in the world of academia.
- tomhow
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- garganzol
Ego is insulted, they're raging but it changes nothing. Math is beautiful exactly because it discerns right from wrong with 100% accuracy, while all the emotions and "flexible interpretations" are redirected to /dev/null.
- jbs789
> Despite its length, the paper contains little of the explanation that mathematicians typically provide when sharing a new discovery.
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