openai unveils 3 major science breakthroughs with new academic collaboration
openai announces three big science discoveries in math, computer science, and physics, and a new way to work with academics, releasing ai output for researchers to work through. this affects the research community and ai development.
openai has announced three new 'major' discoveries in math, computer science, and physics, less than a month after releasing hundreds of manuscripts containing solutions to long-standing mathematics questions. the company is taking a new approach to releasing research results, working with external experts as 'shepherds' in computer science and physics. in math, openai is releasing ai output directly for researchers to work through their own explanations. the discoveries include a proof of local smoothing for the euclidean wave equation, a deterministic algorithm that refutes the exponential time hypothesis, and a mathematically rigorous existence proof of certain interacting quantum field theories. openai's new approach may have its own issues, with some advisers recommending against designating certain people to receive output first.