Fields Medalist: OpenAI's solved 350 major math problems, "massacring" researchers
FlorianGallwitz · x · 2026-10-09
Fields Medalist Hugo Duminil-Copin, in an October 8, 2026 SMF MIAM seminar talk, described the shock of OpenAI systems resolving roughly 350 major math problems — including every problem he had cited in talks, papers, and funding applications, with none left unresolved.
- He put "several trucks" on his slide to illustrate the impact and described feeling panicked and paralyzed in the middle of the night when the results appeared.
- He said the release seemed intended to show the systems could "massacre us in the deepest sense of the term," calling it a serious alignment defect for mathematics.
- Remarks are drawn from an auto-transcript of the YouTube recording.
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