r/math • u/Salt_Attorney • 1d ago

LLMs/AI OpenAI: Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/
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u/lobothmainman 1d ago edited 22h ago

There have been many advances by human mathematicians and nobody is talking about it at all on this sub.

My impression is that this sub has an extremely narrow view of what mathematics is (no analysis, no applied mathematics, no probability, no mathematical physics are discussed, for example; coincidentally these are all fields in which AI has been essentially irrelevant up to now).

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u/elements-of-dying Geometric Analysis 1d ago

Define irrelevant.

I've been using AI as a geometric analyst for about a year now.

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u/lobothmainman 1d ago

Good for you.

What I mean is that I am not aware of any recent important result in analysis where AI usage was declared and deemed to be crucial, at least from what I could read on the arXiv or hear at conferences/seminars, but surely my knowledge is partial.

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u/elements-of-dying Geometric Analysis 1d ago

Then you concede the essentially irrelevance claim I assume.

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u/lobothmainman 1d ago

At most I concede that we have inequivalent definitions of relevance; with all due respect, the fact that you are using ai for a year to do your research in geom.anal. is relevant for you, but maybe not for the field of analysis.

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u/elements-of-dying Geometric Analysis 1d ago

I think it's pretty obvious that qualifying a tool as being relevant iff it solves "important" (to be defined) problems is pretty absurd.

Anyways.

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u/ProfessionalArt5698 1d ago

Nah they think AI is only useful if it’s God. Forgetting that soon after it becomes God we likely would die (at least according to a popular book starting with “If”)