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“Staggering.” “Overwhelming.” “Surreal.” “Pure insanity.” Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the field this week.

theverge.com‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest dropCareers upended overnight, academics will have to separate solutions from slop while OpenAI moves on.

OpenAI’s findings have arrived in increasingly large waves, with little pause between them and frequent indications from the company that yet more are on the way. “You get a sense that they don’t really care about these individual results,” Roney-Dougal said. “It’s a really nasty feeling.”

theverge.com‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest dropCareers upended overnight, academics will have to separate solutions from slop while OpenAI moves on.

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