"How much beauty have we lost?" Mathematicians react with shock and disgust as OpenAI bulldozes their field
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What happened
OpenAI published more than 700 AI-generated manuscripts claiming solutions to open math problems. A math blog then collected over 100 responses from researchers, ranging from fascination with new ideas to existential fears and grief over a lost way of working. Fields Medalist Hugo Duminil-Copin wrote, "I am paralysed."
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