Over 150 Mathematicians Warn Governments Against Believing AI Hype in Mathematics
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Victor Tangermann
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Over 150 mathematicians from around the world have signed a declaration warning governments not to "believe the hype" about AI's mathematical capabilities. The warning follows recent claims that AI models like ChatGPT solved or disproved long-standing mathematical problems originally posed by Paul Erdős. The mathematicians argue that these claims are exaggerated and that frontier AI models are not truly solving problems autonomously in the way the public and policymakers might believe.
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· 3 pulledThis marks the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics
Believe the hype
Over 150 mathematics experts from around the world warns governments not to 'believe the hype' when it comes to AI
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