OpenAI's flood of new math results scoops a professor's grant topic; Lee Sedol quote resurfaces
GarrisonLovely · x · 2026-10-08
OpenAI's batch of novel math results is rippling into daily academic life: one topology professor told his class OpenAI scooped 'the most important problem in his area,' the very topic of his pending grant application. Nathan Calvin resurfaced Lee Sedol's 2017 quote after losing to AlphaGo: 'It may not be a happy ending.'
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