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OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened

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Re: OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened

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Post by moefh »

gpjt wrote: post #68

To be fair to the OpenAI team, if read in context the situation is at worst ambiguous. The deleted tweet that the article is about said "GPT-5 just found solutions to 10 (!) previously unsolved Erdös problems, and made progress on 11 others. These have all been open for decades." If it had been posted stand-alone then I would certainly agree that it was misleading, but it was not. It was a quote-tweet of this: https:…

> Kevin Weil had the two previous quotes in his context when he did his post and didn't consider the fact that readers would only see the first level, so wouldn't have Sebastien Bubek's post in mind when they read his.

No, Weil said he himself misunderstood Sellke's post[1].

Note Weil's wording (10 previously unsolved Erdos problems) vs. Sellke's wording (10 Erdos problems that were listed as open).

[1] https://x.com/kevinweil/status/1979270343941591525

Re: OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened

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Post by goalieca »

grafmax wrote: post #52
amirhirsch wrote: post #37

The sad truth about this incident is that it reveals that OpenAI does not have a serious effort to actually work on unsolved math problems.

I realized they jumped the shark when they announced the pivots to ads and porn. Markets haven’t caught on yet.

The porn pivot makes perfect sense. Porn is already quite fake and unconvincing and none of that matters.

Re: OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened

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Post by [deleted] »

frays wrote: post #62
llm_nerd wrote: post #46

Yann LeCun's "Hoisted by their own GPTards" is fantastic.

I might be missing context here, but I'm surprised to see Yann using language that plays on 'retard.' That seems out of character for him - more like something I'd expect from Elon Musk. What's the context I'm missing?

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Re: OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened

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Post by [deleted] »

gpjt wrote: post #68

To be fair to the OpenAI team, if read in context the situation is at worst ambiguous. The deleted tweet that the article is about said "GPT-5 just found solutions to 10 (!) previously unsolved Erdös problems, and made progress on 11 others. These have all been open for decades." If it had been posted stand-alone then I would certainly agree that it was misleading, but it was not. It was a quote-tweet of this: https:…

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Re: OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #65
grafmax wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I realized they jumped the shark when they announced the pivots to ads and porn. Markets haven’t caught on yet.

The porn / sex-chat one is really disappointing. It seems they've given up even pretending that they are trying to do something beneficial for society. This is just a pure society-be-damned money grab.

They've raised far too much money for those kinda ethics, unfortunately.

Re: OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened

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Post by throwacct »

goalieca wrote: post #103
grafmax wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I realized they jumped the shark when they announced the pivots to ads and porn. Markets haven’t caught on yet.

The porn pivot makes perfect sense. Porn is already quite fake and unconvincing and none of that matters.

Unfortunately, the porn pivot might be their path to "profitability".

Re: OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened

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Post by Frieren »

gpjt wrote: post #68

To be fair to the OpenAI team, if read in context the situation is at worst ambiguous. The deleted tweet that the article is about said "GPT-5 just found solutions to 10 (!) previously unsolved Erdös problems, and made progress on 11 others. These have all been open for decades." If it had been posted stand-alone then I would certainly agree that it was misleading, but it was not. It was a quote-tweet of this: https:…

> "GPT-5 is really good at literature search, it 'solved' an apparently-open problem by finding an existing solution"

Survivor bias.

I can assure you that GPT-5 fucks up even relatively easy searches. I need to have a very good idea how the results looks like and the ability to test it to be able to use any result from GPT-5.

If I throw the dice 1000 times and post about it each time that I got a double six. Am I the best dice thrower that there is?

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