OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened

* OpenAI researchers claimed or suggested that GPT-5 had solved unsolved math problems, but in reality, the model only found known results that were unfamiliar to the operator of erdosproblems.com.

* Mathematician Thomas Bloom and Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis criticized the announcement as misleading, leading the researchers to retract or amend their original claims.

* According to mathematician Terence Tao, AI models like GPT-5 are currently most helpful for speeding up basic research tasks such as literature review, rather than independently solving complex mathematical problems.

If it just found existing solutions then they obviously weren't "previously unsolved" so the tweet is wrong.

He clearly misunderstood the situation and jumped to the conclusion that GPT-5 had actually solved the problems because that's what he wanted to believe.

That said, the misunderstanding is understandable because the tweet he was responding to said they had been listed as "open", but solving unsolved erdos problems by itself would be such a big deal that he probably should have double checked it.

The inevitable collapse could be even more devastating than the 2008 financial crisis.

All while so vast resources are being wasted on non-verifiable gen AI slob, while real approaches (neuro-symbolic like DeepMind's AlphaFold) are mostly ignored financially because they don't generate the quick stock market increases that hype does.