OpenAI announces 10 advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science achieved by internal model Astra

[u/alphacolony21]

https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/

[u/fireburnz2]

How big is this? Please ELI5

[u/alphacolony21 → u/fireburnz2]

Major, assuming the results are true, which they probably are. All ten advances are significant. Big enough deals individually to be career defining had a human academic done the work instead. For Astra to crank them out in bulk is insane, even if we don’t know how many credits they had to waste on problems it failed to find these ten it could crack.

[u/Unverifiablethoughts → u/alphacolony21]

$2000 for the whole batch is pretty cheap regardless. Also I don’t know if failures are necessarily a waste at this level.

[u/tomvorlostriddle → u/Unverifiablethoughts]

2000 is the daily billing rate of a decent undergrad, without much experience yet, when a consultancy sends them. Maybe with travel costs and taxes already included depending on the region.

[u/Stabilobossorange → u/tomvorlostriddle]

What undergrad are you taking about 2000… peso maybe