OpenAI publishes solutions to more than 370 outstanding math challenges. The results divide mathematicians but most agree: Math will never be the same

OpenAI published AI-generated full or partial solutions Tuesday to more than 370 outstanding mathematical problems, including some that have long been considered grand challenges in the field. The volume of results stunned many mathematicians, while the way OpenAI has gone about tackling the problems and publishing the solutions divided the field. Some said they were enthusiastic about the results, seeing huge new areas for mathematicians to explore. Others said the approach OpenAI and other AI companies have taken to solving mathematical problems constitutes an assault on mathematics as a human academic discipline. OpenAI said it achieved the results using an unreleased internal AI model. It said that on average the model took about three hours of computing time to arrive at each solution. The massive cache of new solutions includes full or partial results for many of the problems mathematicians have considered the most important to the field. The results come weeks after OpenAI said it had used an unreleased internal model to solve the Navier-Stokes equations, one of the seven Millennium Prize problems for which the Clay Mathematics Institute offers a $1 million award. In the most recent batch of…