OpenAI's latest blow to mathematicians: 'They have annihilated my field'
ThereWas · reddit · 2026-10-13
Le Monde reports that OpenAI's latest model progress has sent shockwaves through the math community, with one mathematician saying the models "have annihilated my field of research"—a sign that frontier models' advancing math capabilities are materially undermining the value of some pure-math research directions. Details in the original article.
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