OpenAI Claims AI Solved Millennium Problem
AI suspected of stealing ideas for solving the 'Millennium Problem'.
Consensus
- OpenAI claimed its internal AI model solved one of the Millennium Prize problems related to Navier-Stokes equations.
- The problem involves proving the existence and smoothness of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations.
- The Clay Mathematics Institute offers a $1 million prize for solving each of the seven Millennium Prize problems.
- Mathematician Tristan Bakhmaster from New York University expressed concerns about OpenAI's claim.
- Bakhmaster and researcher Levant Alpoge believe OpenAI may have used their approach or data.
- Bakhmaster reported that he and a colleague made progress on a modified version of the Navier-Stokes equations.
- Bakhmaster suspects OpenAI may have accessed their work via Codex, a tool he used.
Points of divergence
- Terence Tao, a Fields Medalist, wrote that in mathematics, the scarce resource is not solutions but good problems, and researchers now have incentive to keep their work secret. — thebell
- Bakhmaster has not received a clear response from OpenAI regarding his inquiry about the potential access to their work. — tg_rian_ru
Coverage (3 sources)
- AI suspected of stealing ideas for solving the "millennium problem". Solution to one of seven million-dollar problems (such a prize was set for them) model from company OpenAI could have looked at user session. — РИА Новости (Telegram)
- What is the problem with OpenAI and the Millennium Challenge, AI hallucinations in the Supreme Court and foldable iPhone for $2000 — The Bell
- AI suspected of stealing ideas for solving 'millennium problem'. — РИА Новости (Telegram)
Key entities
- New York University
- OpenAI
- AI
- Tristan Bakmaster
- Supreme Court
- Anthropic
- Levent Alpge
- Clay Mathematics Institute
- AI hallucinations