Sam Altman says OpenAI will not stop its onslaught of math results

Sam Altman said on an episode of the Cheeky Pint podcast that he sympathizes with mathematicians trying to keep up with OpenAI’s AI-generated results, but does not intend to stop releasing them. He said humanity’s right to new fundamental knowledge outweighs the disruption caused by the releases, while acknowledging that the company needs to improve its communication. Mathematicians told The Verge that OpenAI’s announcements lack context, attribution and verification; in a single month, the company released hundreds of results, often with brief and difficult-to-follow writeups.

The company has also announced three claimed breakthroughs in mathematics, physics and computer science, but has not yet made public details of a result involving Yang-Mills theory. Altman said OpenAI has many more discoveries beyond the hundreds of proofs already released and estimated that it has spent on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars on mathematical problems, including around $10 million on its Navier-Stokes solution.