This subjective attitude turns mathematics into nothing more than number-poetry.
That would reduce mathematics to something very pathetic.
Focus instead on attribution. Yes, OpenAI took the last tiny step in the process of solving this problem (= proving it). But it cannot attribute credit to all the mathematicians whose chat logs from the past few months were fed into its training data. Unlike a human, it can't even remember where it learned things from! For many theorems, I can still recall which exposition was the one that "sank in" for me (often not the first one!) a decade after grad school.
In my mind, this makes current LLMs unfit to deserve any credit at all -- they cannot give credit to others, so they and their owners deserve no credit themselves. OpenAI's LLM took the last tiny step, but not any of the important ones.
It's point #1 that makes me sad.
Then that is not necessarily subjective either if an AI can produce an actually intelligible proof. The problem is that as mathematicians with PDE expertise have mentioned on Twitter the actual solution seems to devolve into an unreadable mess focusing on irrelevant details after a more readable first few pages in the proof. If it wasn't a Lean compiled proof and presented as a human artifact, it would be hard to assess if the deviser of the solution had any actual understanding of the solution.
Yes I fear a lot of doom and gloom around AI is unearned and only really serves to prop up the valuation of AI companies. It's still very much unclear how much work OpenAI actually did versus just copying the nearly complete homework of someone 5 minutes earlier.
sp-ti-en-ma-in•27m ago
25 Field Medalist and 5000+ mathematicians from leading institutions around the world endorsed an open letter expressing concerns about the impact of AI on mathematics:
https://www.mathandai.org/
More than 1,900+ mathematicians have also shown concern over the Caltech Mathathon:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IL0b2oG2KvvSnxn_DuXsNxuH...
James Maynard, a Fields Medalist, has also publicly expressed concerns about the implications of AI for mathematics:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R9VQnNv5SoI