'Immature playground boasting': Mathematicians uneasy at OpenAI's latest scalp

For many mathematicians, it is the weeks, months and years spent circling a problem that appeals. For many mathematicians, it is the weeks, months and years spent circling a problem that appeals. I t was a week that left mathematicians reeling. Hot on the heels of a flurry of cases of artificial intelligence furthering the field, OpenAI declared a major scalp: its latest AI model had cracked a Millennium Prize Problem, a puzzle with a $1m reward that had defied human brains for decades. The achievement bore little resemblance to how mathematical problems normally fall.