Scott Aaronson on OpenAI releasing 372 math results: Mathocalypse for the math community
The Mathocalypse
Scott Aaronson wrote about OpenAI's one-time release of 372 mathematical results, including a proof of the Unique Games Conjecture (UGC), which his wife Dana Moshkovitz had long studied, with some results accompanied by Lean certificates, but almost no humans have read these proofs. He listed results such as L=BPL, Fourier Transform and integer multiplication breaking O(n log n), and the Unitary Synthesis Problem, and noted that the biggest open problems like P≠NP and P=BPP remain unsolved. He mentioned that the model is OpenAI's latest internal model, using about 3 hours of GPT-Pro-level compute per problem on average, solving only about 5% of long-standing open problems across about 8000 problems, and whether it will be released to paying ChatGPT users depends on the recommendation of OpenAI's safety committee.
作者以亲历者视角记录 OpenAI 一次性放出数百项数学结果后学界的震动,并对比两家实验室的发布方式。