OpenAI forms mathematics advisory group — TechCrunch
OpenAI has announced the creation of an independent advisory group on mathematics and artificial intelligence, to be hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The group is intended to give mathematicians more opportunities to influence the company’s mathematics-focused research, TechCrunch reports.
The group’s advisory role
The new body has been named the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. OpenAI said it is intended to serve as a link between the company, the mathematical community and the public, and to give mathematicians a voice in future work.
Members of the group will work without compensation. They will be able to offer advice on their own initiative, publicly express their positions and independently determine the group’s composition. This is intended to provide them with a certain level of independence from the company.
The group will primarily perform an advisory function: it will assess the significance of new results and coordinate their publication. At the same time, it will not have the authority to slow down or change the direction of OpenAI’s internal mathematics research.
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The Institute for Advanced Study also stressed that it will provide advice but will not make decisions at artificial intelligence companies. The companies themselves will bear responsibility for such decisions.
Claims of mathematical results
The announcement came after the sudden publication of a solution to the Millennium Prize Problem on the Navier–Stokes equations. OpenAI also stated that the same internal model solved more than 100 additional open problems across most fields of mathematics.
The pace at which such results have emerged has prompted objections from some scientists. Earlier in September, 25 mathematicians awarded the Fields Medal signed an open letter. In it, they said AI laboratories threaten their intellectual work by competing to solve known mathematical problems.
The initial composition of the new group includes nine prominent mathematicians. Only one of them — Camillo De Lellis of the Institute for Advanced Study — also signed the letter from mathematicians awarded the Fields Medal.
