The research community is in uproar after OpenAI released a trove of more than 700 mathematical preprints entirely generated by AI on 6 October. The San Francisco, California-based maker of ChatGPT posted the preprints on the software repository Github.

Although some mathematicians celebrated the solution of longstanding problems, others took to social media to complain about being scooped. Some were incensed at what one physicist called a ‘slopocalypse’, even if the mathematical content could end up being formally correct.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I’m actually paraphrasing Terence Tao

    That doesn’t even mean you’re saying the same thing bud…

    Non-mathematicians don’t realize this, but proofs aren’t intrinsically valuable outside of what they mean about the community capable of creating them.

    Do you think “non-mathematicians” think solving a math problem magically gets someone a check? Like, if anythi g you have it backwards

    You’re way off on everything though.

    You should paraphrase less, wait till after you understand what you’re reading.

    • yeahiknow3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      I provided a link. Are you… not able to read?

      What do you think I mean by “valuable” and why would that equal “getting a check”?

      Fucking bizarre. This might be the dumbest conversation I’ve participated in this week.