Just weeks after publishing over 700 pages of solutions to 372 important mathematical problems, OpenAI has announced another wave of scientific breakthroughs. This time, the discoveries span not only mathematics, but also theoretical computer science and physics.
Just weeks after publishing over 700 pages of solutions to 372 important mathematical problems, OpenAI has announced another wave of scientific breakthroughs. This time, the discoveries span not only mathematics, but also theoretical computer science and physics.
For this release, OpenAI is experimenting with three different collaboration strategies. The company has made the mathematical results publicly available so that the scientific community can explore and explain them on its own, Engadget reports . External expert groups have been formed to analyze the results from computer science and physics. Computer science researchers are preparing their own explanatory materials in parallel with the publication of the raw AI data, while the publication of the physics materials is fully delegated to the relevant profile group.
Two new scientific manuscripts from OpenAI are now available on GitHub :
mathematics — a proof of Sogge's local smoothing for waves in each spatial dimension has been published — this is a well-known conjecture regarding the behavior of solutions to the wave equation;
Computer science — AI has provided proof that the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH) is false.
The refutation of ETH is a fundamental event for computer science. This hypothesis was considered true and served as the basis for hundreds of studies in the fields of databases, computational biology and geometry. If it is indeed false, this opens the way to the creation of fundamentally more efficient algorithms for solving complex computational problems. Interestingly, the scientists who once proposed the ETH hypothesis are now part of the expert group that analyzes and explains the results of the OpenAI model.
Results in the field of physics concern the proof of interacting quantum field theories containing gauge fields and fermions in four dimensions.
The group of physicists has not yet published the final materials, but has already created a separate email address for questions about the research: YANGMILLS4D[@]gmail.com.
OpenAI has stated that it will not claim any academic authorship or scientific regalia for the discoveries made by its models. All scientific merit and copyright for the prepared articles will remain with the experts involved.
In addition, it is the expert groups that will be responsible for ensuring that the final publications properly identify all the scientists, methods, and ideas that OpenAI models used when generating these solutions.
