Comment by daveguy
2 hours ago
OpenAI could neither confirm nor deny whether their most recent AI model that solved the millennium problem actually stole partial solutions via training data from the researchers who were close and using OpenAI gpt as a tool.
No, they explicitly denied it.[1]
> …in particular, no specific user data was accessed in order to solve this problem.
> Following an investigation, we have confirmed that Buckmaster’s Codex prompts over the two months preceding this announcement and paper on September 8, 2026, could not have influenced the system in any way, including through training.
I'm sure some people doubt OpenAI's claims, but Anthropic has also made advances in mathematics using AI. At some point you have to accept that not every single one of these breakthroughs is regurgitating a human insight.
If doubters refuse to pick specific cognitive tasks that they'd bet against AIs being able to accomplish in the next 4 years, I don't see how their claims are useful. If AIs are so limited in their capabilities, then clearly there must be some things they'll certainly be incapable of, at least in the short term.
1. https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/