Ill-Posed

mastodon — Brian Vastag — 17 Sep 2026

More details on OpenAI claiming it had solved a famous outstanding math problem: One of the human mathematicians working…

#ai-mathematics #research-ethics #llm-capabilities

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More details on OpenAI claiming it had solved a famous outstanding math problem: One of the human mathematicians working on it said he had 3 ChatGPT accounts but only opted out of training the LLM with two of them. That means the model may have well ingested his work and used it to solve the problem. Attribution mess is messy. (Story by Davide Castelvecchi, who happens to have a PhD in math himsel…

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