OpenAI Reportedly Trying to Solve Hodge Conjecture Amid Feud With Math Community
Not long after OpenAI swept in to announce it had solved the famous Navier-Stokes math problem, angering the math community and spurring speculation that the AI lifted its findings from other mathematicians, the company is allegedly homing in on another Millennium Prize Problem. The Information reported Thursday, citing a single source at OpenAI, that employees at the AI firm expect to soon crack the Hodge Conjecture. That’s a famous unresolved question in math concerning whether certain topological features of geometric figures defined by polynomial equations can always be constructed by smaller geometric slices of the same figure.
- ▪Not long after OpenAI swept in to announce it had solved the famous Navier-Stokes math problem, angering the math community and spurring speculation that the AI lifted its findings from other mathematicians, the company is allegedly homing
- ▪The Information reported Thursday, citing a single source at OpenAI, that employees at the AI firm expect to soon crack the Hodge Conjecture.
- ▪That’s a famous unresolved question in math concerning whether certain topological features of geometric figures defined by polynomial equations can always be constructed by smaller geometric slices of the same figure.
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Not long after OpenAI swept in to announce it had solved the famous Navier-Stokes math problem, angering the math community and spurring speculation that the AI lifted its findings from other mathematicians, the company is allegedly homing in on another Millennium Prize Problem. The Information reported Thursday, citing a single source at OpenAI, that employees at the AI firm expect to soon crack the Hodge Conjecture. That’s a famous unresolved question in math concerning whether certain topological features of geometric figures defined by polynomial equations can always be constructed by smaller geometric slices of the same figure. Scientific American noted it is “arguably the most abstract of the seven Millennium Prize puzzles,” of which just five remain to be solved.
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