OpenAI released 722 new AI-generated mathematical papers at once – three have been retracted, and mathematicians are coming to grips with the rest.
  • arctanthrope@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    if you put infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters, one of them will eventually write a proof of something. that doesn’t make that monkey, much less the entire collection of monkeys, a mathematician

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
      31·
      12 days ago

      if you put infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters, one of them will eventually write a proof of something.

      Okay, but that’s not what OpenAI is doing.

      that doesn’t make that monke […] a mathematician

      Nor is OpenAI a mathematician, but the article isn’t claiming that it is.