Comment by gr_norm
4 hours ago
This is mathematicians using the solution, explicitly acknowledged to solve the original formulation of the problem, to pose interesting new questions. That is what mathematics is.
Only someone who has never interacted with mathematics outside a rote-problem-solving capacity would describe it as you have.
Or people with a vested interest in pushing the frontier labs' preferred narrative that they've achieved "AGI"...even while frontier labs continue to hire human "Account Associates", "Android Engineers", "Applied AI Engineers"...
Please. The headline is clickbait, trying to imply that OpenAI somehow screwed up.
What I've said is rather clearly spelled out in the article. Consider reading the it next time?
> It did, however, unambiguously solve the problem according to the Clay Institute’s original formulation.