Mathematician criticizes OpenAI's tease of 100 open problems
Elliot Glazer says the teaser invites uninformed speculation, and notes that the irrationality of zeta(5) was verified by Astra and may be on the list.
Mathematician @ElliotGlazer says OpenAI chose the most annoying possible way to tease its "100 open problems," and reveals the one result he’s confident is on the list: "It's like the most maximally annoying announcement they could have gone with. It completely lends itself to uninformed, unfalsifiable speculation." "Everyone online is shouting, oh, math is solved, math is over. We don't even know what the results are. Can you at least wait to hear what the results are before you declare the death of my field?" "One result that basically just got confirmed is zeta(5) irrational. There was a preprint posted on Zenodo a few days ago by a master student. I checked it in Astra, and Astra has fully confirmed it. If Astra could do it, I'm sure Bel can. So I'm kinda gonna guess that that's one of them." "It's just frustrating for the community that we're all stopped in our tracks waiting to hear what these damn results are."