New Math from OpenAI
Show notes
OpenAI put 722 machine-written mathematics manuscripts on GitHub at once, including claimed solutions to 90 of the top 500 open problems in mathematics. Zvi Mowshowitz goes through what was proved, why the news barely registered, what it means for cryptography and for Lean, and how mathematicians, from Terence Tao to the advisory group and a new association of human mathematicians, are taking it.
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* 00:00 - Introduction
* 01:29 - Table of Contents
* 02:16 - What Did We Prove?
* 05:08 - The Mathocalypse
* 08:06 - The World Does Not Understand
* 10:54 - For Now You Can Still Do Math
* 11:51 - You Will Need To Find A New Problem
* 15:27 - Verification or Evaluation Is Not Always Easier Than Generation
* 16:49 - Cracking the Code
* 20:54 - Never Change
* 21:16 - The Mathematicians Are Not Okay
* 31:05 - The Situation Turns Ugly
* 34:18 - The Advisory Group Responds
* 36:16 - Another Mathematical Group Responds
* 39:19 - A Different Approach
* 42:26 - Three Withdraws
* 43:16 - Leaning Into Lean
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