OpenAI claims its AI cracked decades-old problems in math, complexity theory and physics
THE_ILL_SAGE · reddit · 2026-10-27
OpenAI announced AI-produced breakthroughs in three fields: a claimed refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis in complexity theory (shaking up assumptions around P vs NP without settling it), rigorous existence foundations for quantum field theory equations, and a solution to a decades-old problem about wave concentration that takes down several related open problems. The post stresses these results still await independent expert verification.
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