OpenAI forms maths advisory group after claims of 100-plus AI breakthroughs
The nine-member group will assess mathematical results and coordinate their release, but cannot slow or redirect OpenAI’s research.
OpenAI has announced an advisory group hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, to give mathematicians greater input into the company’s mathematics research.
The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence will assess the significance of new results and help coordinate their release. OpenAI said its internal model had resolved more than 100 additional open problems across most areas of mathematics, following the publication of what it described as a solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem.
Those claims have not been independently verified in the source material, which provides no details of the solutions. Their significance and correctness remain subject to mathematical assessment.
The group will have nine initial members, including the Institute for Advanced Study’s Camillo De Lellis. Members will be unpaid, but may offer unsolicited advice, speak publicly and control their own membership.
The group will not have authority to approve, delay or redirect OpenAI’s research. The Institute for Advanced Study said it could provide advice but had no decision-making power over AI companies, whose decisions remained their own responsibility.
The announcement follows an open letter signed by 25 Fields Medal-winning mathematicians, who warned that competition among AI companies over famous mathematical problems threatened mathematicians’ intellectual work.
