The uncomfortable question behind OpenAI's math fight
The drama surrounding a historically difficult math problem actually matters to you. Read why.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, commented on the economy having significant inertia. The Business Insider Today newsletter covered a dispute between a professor, NYU's Tristan Buckmaster, and OpenAI regarding a math problem that has a $1 million prize for its solution. Buckmaster shared his progress in solving the Navier-Stokes problem using AI models, including those from OpenAI, but later discovered that OpenAI had also proposed a solution to the same problem.
OpenAI's computer scientist, Sebastien Bubeck, denied suggestions that they had asked Levent Alpöge, Buckmaster's partner at Anthropic, to be removed from the authorship of their work. OpenAI stated that they were unaware of Buckmaster's research before they publicly revealed their solution, though they could not rule out the possibility that de-identified data from their users' interactions with their products might have contributed to their models' improvement.
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