Mathematician slams OpenAI's '100 open problems' teaser, predicts zeta(5) irrationality is on the list
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-23
Mathematician Elliot Glazer criticized OpenAI for teasing its "100 open problems" without revealing any results, fueling unfalsifiable speculation like "math is solved." He believes one confirmed candidate is a proof of the irrationality of zeta(5): a master's student posted a preprint on Zenodo days ago, and Google's Astra model fully verified it — so OpenAI's models can almost certainly do it too. The math community is left stalled waiting for the actual results.
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