The trick: Scope Swap
The prize is a million dollars for the whole Yang-Mills problem.
OpenAI claims one of its two parts, and the proof is not public.
OpenAI scooped human mathematicians on a million-dollar quantum math problem.
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The twist
The humans went public on 6 October; OpenAI dates its own result to 9 September.
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Receipts
- Supports scientificamerican.com:
The new proof also scoops the work of two human mathematicians, one of whom just happens to be employed by OpenAI’s rival Anthropic.
- Context scientificamerican.com:
He and Alpöge first revealed their burgeoning collaboration to the world on October 6.
- Context scientificamerican.com:
arrived at the result on September 9.
- Context scientificamerican.com:
On Monday evening OpenAI claimed a proof of the “existence” part of the Clay problem.
- Context scientificamerican.com:
The problem has two parts: proving that the theory is mathematically consistent
- Refutes scientificamerican.com:
The company has yet to release the proof; instead OpenAI opted to hand it off to a group of experts
- Context scientificamerican.com:
There is no way it took one month to Lean-verify Yang-Mills
- Context thenextweb.com:
The work includes a proof that pure Yang-Mills theory exists, which is part of one of the Clay Mathematics Institute’s Millennium Prize problems.
- Refutes thenextweb.com:
That group chose not to release the AI-produced material for now and will write up the work itself.
- Context claymath.org:
with $1 million allocated to the solution of each problem.
- Refutes claymath.org:
But no proof of this property is known.
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