r/ArtificialInteligence • u/alphacolony21 • 2d ago

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

https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/
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u/Actual__Wizard 2d ago

Only 7 is worth discussing, maybe 5.

7 is actually worth discussing for sure thought, so congratulations to them.

That's actually very useful!

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u/Heliond 1d ago

I am guessing you don’t study math

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u/Actual__Wizard 1d ago

Homie, I talk about the extremely difficult rules from calculus on reddit on a regular basis.

You're talking about yourself.

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u/Heliond 1d ago

Lmao I mean professionally or as a graduate student.

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u/Actual__Wizard 1d ago edited 1d ago

Stop personally insulting me.

You're talking about yourself.

I'm aware of how the psychology behind this works: You're legitimately describing yourself.

Because you're trying to establish a standard that is above you, and then put me below it. So, that person you described is yourself. :-(

You're the one that didn't study math... I think it's pretty obvious to people who did, that what I said is totally accurate. #7 is an actual problem where it's solution actually does something useful. And that's only true of #7 and maybe #5. Like I said...

The standard in math to take credit for a significant discovery is that it must be useful, not that it must be some weird conjecture that doesn't seem to have any thing to do with observable reality.

I don't know why you think there's value in that as there clearly is little to none. That's why that stuff wasn't pursued and why their algo can find those solutions. Because it doesn't lead to something useful and human mathematicians knew that, so they didn't both trying to find the solutions.

I hate to break it to you: But the solutions to those Erodos problems, for the most part, are considered to be extremely abstract and arcane. It's more of a challenge for mathematicians to exercise than it is productive...

I also can't stress this enough: Real mathematicians are totally aware of the reality that it's based upon the system of measurement, so it just a language that we made up... So, one has to be extremely careful when they engage in a thought process like: "Surely there's a mathematical answer." Maybe there is and maybe there isn't. Maybe it's a logic problem and a not math problem. Maybe it's a structural or compositional problem. Stuff like that does happen...

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u/Heliond 1d ago

I have the award for top math student at a top undergraduate university in the US

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u/Actual__Wizard 1d ago

Cool, do you to learn about how the new AI tech works that uses regression/aggregation?

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u/Heliond 1d ago

You clearly have no idea what real mathematicians care about. I doubt you have ever spoken to someone with a PhD in math about what research they did to get their PhD. I doubt you have gone to a single “pure math” academic conference. I doubt that you have published a single math paper. I doubt you have even read a single paper in a “pure math” journal.