Researchers fault OpenAI for limiting access to claimed breakthroughs
Original title: Researchers are getting tired of OpenAI gatekeeping its breakthroughs
OpenAI released an AI math write-up on Kakeya, will explain a computer-science claim through outsiders, and has not released the physics result.
OpenAI said it has new results in mathematics, computer science and physics and is using outside “shepherds” to decide how each is shared. The math claim, offered as AI-generated output, purports to resolve the Kakeya conjecture in all dimensions. A computer-science claim says it disproves the exponential time hypothesis, while a physics result on quantum chromodynamics and Yang-Mills has not been released. Researchers told The Verge the science may be important but criticized hand-picked early access, a practice AGMAI had just warned against.
Unconfirmed: The breakthroughs are OpenAI’s claims and are not broadly verified; the physics materials remain unreleased.
- The math claim purports to resolve the Kakeya conjecture in all dimensions.
- The computer-science claim says it disproves the exponential time hypothesis.
- The physics note concerns quantum chromodynamics and Yang-Mills, not the mass gap.
- AGMAI warned a day earlier against giving selected experts first access.
From the original article
6 min read at theverge.com
On Monday, OpenAI announced impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, computer science, and physics, along with what the company says is an evolving approach to communicating its findings. But despite its apparent course correction, researchers who spoke to The Verge are growing increasingly tired of the company's antics.
By Robert Hart · theverge.com
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