{"id":9086,"date":"2025-10-20T02:13:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T02:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/openais-embarrassing-math\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T02:13:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T02:13:51","slug":"openais-embarrassing-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/openais-embarrassing-math\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s \u2018embarrassing\u2019 math"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Hoisted by their own GPTards.”<\/p>\n

That’s how Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs.<\/p>\n

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, “this is embarrassing.”<\/p>\n

The Decoder reports that in a since-deleted tweet, OpenAI VP Kevin Weil declared that “GPT-5 found solutions to 10 (!) previously unsolved Erdős problems and made progress on 11 others.” (“Erdős problems” are famous conjectures posed by mathematician Paul Erdős.)<\/p>\n

However, mathematician Thomas Bloom, who maintains the Erdos Problems website, said Weil’s post was “a dramatic misrepresentation” — while these problems were indeed listed as “open” on Bloom’s website, he said that only means, “I personally am unaware of a paper which solves it.”<\/p>\n

In other words, it’s not accurate to claim GPT-5 was able to solve previously unsolved problems. Instead, Bloom wrote, “GPT-5 found references, which solved these problems, that I personally was unaware of.”<\/p>\n

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Sebastien Bubeck, an OpenAI researcher who’d also been touting GPT-5’s accomplishments, then acknowledged that “only solutions in the literature were found,” but he suggested this remains a real accomplishment: “I know how hard it is to search the literature.”<\/p>\n

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“Hoisted by their own GPTards.” That’s how Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, “this is embarrassing.” The Decoder reports that in a since-deleted tweet, OpenAI VP Kevin Weil declared that “GPT-5 found solutions to…<\/p>\n

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