A bombshell from OpenAI announced that their new AI managed to solve one of the toughest math problems. In other words, a company claimed that their software proved the Riemann hypothesis, which has been a headache for scientists during the past eight decades. This news sounds more like the beginning of a blockbuster movie but, according to the developers, it is a fact.
Of course, this statement from OpenAI is not surprising in any way. For a couple of last weeks, the company has managed to become one of the most talked about brands. However, such a statement makes them open themselves to criticism, especially in terms of methodology. It looks more like a marketing move than a scientific discovery.
Assuming that the results of this research are correct, humanity faces an interesting situation. The algorithm has solved a problem that has been bothering us for more than eight decades by outsmarting all mathematicians, who are experts in their domain. Frankly speaking, such a scenario is truly frightening as well as impressive because we should ask ourselves what kind of things machines are capable of.
Obviously, the truth is usually different from what marketers want you to believe. More than likely, what happened was a discovery of a heuristic solution or a part of a solution, which needs to be verified. The verification may take months; in addition, mathematicians may find some mistakes. Anyway, what is really important is that something changed, and people started thinking differently.
Thus, this news marks another step of development on the road to the creation of thinking machines, and it does not matter whether a particular hypothesis has been solved.
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