Mathematician littmath pushes back on calling OpenAI's math release the biggest day in math history
littmath · x · 2026-10-07
Responding to claims that OpenAI's math results release was "the most significant day in math history," littmath says he strongly disagrees — at most it's a leading indicator, and that milestone should arguably be the release of GPT-3 or something earlier.
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