On Monday, OpenAI announced a new independent advisory group hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Called the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, the group is meant to give mathematicians more input into the company’s math-oriented research. “This group will serve as a bridge to the mathematical community and
Mathematician and author Steven Strogatz starts to cry when he talks about the artificial-intelligence-driven breakthroughs in his field over the past week. “The science is thrilling,” the Cornell University professor says, “but there’s a lot of human unpleasantness going with it.” On Tuesday, OpenAI said it had used tens of thousands of agents to solve
The latest math problem OpenAI is trying to solve is a bunch of angry mathematicians. A researcher at OpenAI said on Thursday that the ChatGPT maker is no longer sponsoring Caltech’s “math hackathon,” an event where participants use large language models to solve research problems. OpenAI’s exit follows an open letter released on Wednesday from
“Is there an AI bubble?” is such a tired thought. Here’s something altogether more wired: The AI boom is paying off, but not in a way that the current equities market has accounted for. The success of the technology in one area of the economy could make the bubble real in another, more precisely. In
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