OpenAI’s path to building super-intelligent machines is looking ever fuzzier.
The latest sign came from an embarrassing blunder by the company’s leading scientists over the weekend. “GPT-5 just found solutions to 10 (!) previously unsolved Erdös problems,” the company’s vice president for science, Kevin Weil, breathlessly posted on X in a post that has since been deleted.
It turned out that was misleading. The company’s latest model had simply scraped answers off the internet and regurgitated them as its own.
Many of the infamous, unsolved problems of mathematician Paul Erdös are listed on this website, and OpenAI’s researchers ...
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