Topology professor laments OpenAI scooped 'the most important problem in his area'
ctjlewis · x · 2026-10-08
A student recounts how their topology professor said OpenAI scooped "the most important problem in his area" — one he was writing a grant application for. The quoted tweet adds a tongue-in-cheek take that the age of the thinking human is over and the "sensing, instinctual human" has begun, a mix of academic anxiety and AI-circle meme humor about research being increasingly preempted by labs.
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