“Hoisted by their very own GPTards.”
That’s how Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, “this is embarrassing.”
The Decoder reports that in a since-deleted tweet, OpenAI VP Kevin Weil declared that “GPT-5 discovered options to 10 (!) beforehand unsolved Erdős issues and made progress on 11 others.” (“Erdős issues” are famous conjectures posed by mathematician Paul Erdős.)
Nonetheless, mathematician Thomas Bloom, who maintains the Erdos Problems website, mentioned Weil’s publish was “a dramatic misrepresentation” — whereas these issues have been certainly listed as “open” on Bloom’s web site, he mentioned that solely means, “I personally am unaware of a paper which solves it.”
In different phrases, it’s not correct to declare GPT-5 was ready to clear up beforehand unsolved issues. As an alternative, Bloom wrote, “GPT-5 discovered references, which solved these issues, that I personally was unaware of.”
Sebastien Bubeck, an OpenAI researcher who’d additionally been touting GPT-5’s accomplishments, then acknowledged that “solely options in the literature have been discovered,” however he recommended this stays an actual accomplishment: “I understand how laborious it is to search the literature.”
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