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OpenAI posts 722 AI-written math preprints, drawing math community backlash

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On Oct 6 (US Eastern time), OpenAI published 722 math research manuscripts on GitHub written by an unreleased internal model, grouped into 372 result categories across 17 fields, with 162 carrying Lean formalizations of their main results; the company said each successful result cost roughly the equivalent of ChatGPT Pro thinking for three hours, and listed targets such as the four-dimensional Kakeya conjecture, the Unique Games conjecture and Mahler's conjecture. The release drew heavy skepticism, coming after OpenAI's Sept 8 claim to have solved the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem; a Milan-Bicocca researcher says a recent paper finds at least two inconsistencies between the paper and its Lean code, making the formalized result weaker. OpenAI has released only average compute times, not the model, prompts or full computation traces, and has withdrawn 3 manuscripts and revised 14 after finding a symbol error, leaving 719 listed.

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Lean verification checks formal correctness, not whether a result proves the problem it claims — so the fight is now about how AI-generated mathematics gets validated, credited and absorbed.

(本文作者为 数智奔流,钛媒体经授权发布)

文 | 数智奔流,作者 | 田渝,编辑 | 沈校

美东时间10月6日傍晚6点,OpenAI发布了由一款尚未公开的内部模型撰写的722篇数学研究手稿,这些手稿被归纳为17个领域的372个成果类别,其中162篇还附有主结果的Lean形式化证明。

官方表示,每项成功结果消耗的算力相当于ChatGPT Pro思考3小时。

声明的成果清单包括四维Kakeya猜想、广义黎曼猜想相关问题、唯一游戏猜想、自由群因子同构问题、有理数域上的希尔伯特第十问题、CM阿贝尔簇的霍奇猜想、马勒猜想……

然而,OpenAI在数学界以大胆宣称和缺乏透明度而闻名,这次的发布引发了相当大的质疑。

#OpenAI#Anthropic#Lean#ChatGPT Pro#GPT-6 Astra#Clay Mathematics Institute#Codex#Claude#Terence Tao#Curtis McMullen#Math and AI

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