Researchers Increasingly Tired of OpenAI Gating Its Breakthrough Results
Researchers are getting tired of OpenAI gatekeeping its breakthroughs
OpenAI announced three major results in mathematics, computer science and physics, and said it is adjusting how it releases results, but several researchers interviewed expressed growing dissatisfaction with its gated disclosure. The mathematics result claims to resolve the Kakeya conjecture in all dimensions, and OpenAI has publicly released the AI-generated output; the computer science result claims to refute the exponential time hypothesis and will be explained by an external team; the physics result concerns quantum chromodynamics and Yang-Mills theory and has not yet been released, with OpenAI saying it will defer to external experts on how to release it. Brown University mathematics professor Brendan Hassett said the claims appear well-founded but that he has not yet checked the Lean formalization. AGMAI, one day before the announcement, advised AI companies not to select specific individuals to receive results first, and after the release urged OpenAI to publish the natural-language and Lean outputs of the physics result without delay.