An NYU professor says OpenAI's mass release of math papers wiped out early-career researchers' projects
Source: Business Insider ·
OpenAI's release of hundreds of AI-generated math papers raised questions over its training data and what it would do to the academic norms in math.
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Tristan Buckmaster, a NYU math professor, said OpenAI's math dump wiped out entire early-career research programs.Karsten Moran / For The Washington Post via Getty ImagesOpenAI solved over 700 math problems and released the data on GitHub earlier this week.An NYU math professor said the release wiped out early-career research programs.Mathematicians raised questions over whether their unpublished data had been used to train AI.OpenAI’s latest math release has some academics celebrating breakthroughs and others wondering what happens to the researchers who were still working toward them.Tristan Buckmaster, a mathematics professor at New York University, told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Thursday that the company’s release had upended work by early-career mathematicians.“So we've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump,” Buckmaster said.OpenAI released over 700 mathematical manuscripts on GitHub on Tuesday, describing them in an announcement as the results of an…
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