The Information: OpenAI expects to solve the Hodge conjecture soon, its second "Millennium Prize Problem" in a month
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If this is confirmed, SI will have closed two problems in a month that humans could not solve for decades — and the debate is no longer about whether a machine can, but about how mathematics will live with it.
According to The Information, citing a single anonymous source, OpenAI employees expect to solve the Hodge conjecture soon, one of the seven Clay Institute "Millennium Prize Problems" with a $1 million prize; they are using a variant of the next pretrained model, codenamed Doug. OpenAI itself told the New York Times only that, after solving Navier–Stokes on September 8, it has made "substantial progress" on a second problem, without saying which. The company's main concern, according to the source, is to announce the result in a way that avoids another PR scandal: mathematicians are angry after Navier–Stokes, have signed open letters, and OpenAI withdrew its sponsorship of the October Caltech Mathathon.
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