Oai-math-revised: a community hub for revising OpenAI's math write-ups

(terrytao.wordpress.com)

12 points | by tokepi 3 hours ago

6 comments

  • sdenton4 35 minutes ago
    Feels like we need a new truth-state for mathematics: "Verified-but-Unproven" for results which we know to be true through formal verification, but without any coherent proof.

    I would generally expect this state to resolve quickly to "Proven and Verified" (the tendency in mathematics historically has been for complicated first-proofs of results, followed by significant reductions in proof complexity as new tools and definitions become available), but may still be useful for assigning real credit to who/whatever produces reasonable proof for a brute-force-verified result.

  • athrowaway3z 8 minutes ago
    This experiment might be relevant: https://github.com/offline-ant/wiggums-proof-loop
  • turzmo 37 minutes ago
    If mathematicians didn't enjoy digging their own graves with formalization before, perhaps they will enjoy digging their own unmarked, mass graves now?
    • pixl97 10 minutes ago
      We should burn the excavators and dig holes with our hands.
  • vishna 57 minutes ago
    This is OpenAI’s etc version of getting unpaid internships from phd students
  • lukax 14 minutes ago
    And now they can train on everything this community does. And with new models this community won't be needed anymore.
    • nostrebored 12 minutes ago
      right, and this would be a positive for the world.
      • qwr186 1 minute ago
        Yes, only Nvidia should exist. r/accelerate nutcase?
  • 1293475 40 minutes ago
    The authors are all in computational mathematics and AI. This is the soft power version of the OpenAI repo to get people to work for free. Maybe call it OpenOpenAI.