

But that in itself is a conspiracy theory, the AI they implemented is basically air gapped from the system that failed, it makes recommendations and that’s it


But that in itself is a conspiracy theory, the AI they implemented is basically air gapped from the system that failed, it makes recommendations and that’s it


An LLM came up with a novel solution to the Erdős unit distance problem. It was unsolved for 80 years.
"And, on May 20, OpenAI shared a solution to the unit distance problem, along with a blog post explaining the work and a companion paper that featured nine world-class mathematicians commenting on the correctness of the proof and the importance of what had been done (as well as presenting a streamlined human version of the result). Mathematicians had generally believed that Erdős’ conjecture — about how many evenly spaced points can be placed on a plane — was correct. To general surprise, OpenAI’s internal model found a counterexample. To do so, it had found a sophisticated way to use tools from an area of math called algebraic number theory. As Jacob Tsimerman of the University of Toronto wrote in the companion article, “This is a really impressive piece of work. … It is definitely an intimidating construction.”


The destruction code: 4321
“Well, the code definitely isn’t 4321”
The facts that are available is that AI was only implemented as part of the SMART tool. That particular tool is completely separate from the system that failed and only gives recommendations that the operator can choose to ignore.