OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch

“Hoisted by their very 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, “that is embarrassing.”

The Decoder reports that in a since-deleted tweet, OpenAI VP Kevin Weil declared that “GPT-5 discovered options to 10 (!) beforehand unsolved Erdős issues and made progress on 11 others.” (“Erdős issues” are famous conjectures posed by mathematician Paul Erdős.)

Nonetheless, mathematician Thomas Bloom, who maintains the Erdos Problems website, stated Weil’s put up was “a dramatic misrepresentation” — whereas these issues had been certainly listed as “open” on Bloom’s web site, he stated that solely means, “I personally am unaware of a paper which solves it.”

In different phrases, it’s not correct to assert GPT-5 was in a position to clear up beforehand unsolved issues. As an alternative, Bloom wrote, “GPT-5 discovered references, which solved these issues, that I personally was unaware of.”

Sebastien Bubeck, an OpenAI researcher who’d additionally been touting GPT-5’s accomplishments, then acknowledged that “solely options within the literature had been discovered,” however he recommended this stays an actual accomplishment: “I understand how laborious it’s to go looking the literature.”