OpenAI announced on Monday, October 26, that it has made three “major” discoveries in physics, mathematics and computer science.
In mathematics, they claimed to have resolved the Kakeya conjecture and Stein’s restriction conjecture “in all dimensions. For the computer science and physics discoveries, they say they were advised to seek assistance from external experts. For the computer science discovery, the group recommended releasing the raw AI output for researchers to review.
The group of experts they consulted on the discoveries recommended different ways of proceeding with the research, according to the October 26 announcement.
OpenAI said they have found the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH) in computer science, long believed to be true, is actually false. For the physics problem, “David Gross will lead a group including Michael Douglas, Arthur Jaffe, Igor Klebanov, and Nikita Nekrasov,” OpenAI said.
