Deepwave TechFlow news: On September 17, The Information reported that earlier this month, OpenAI fell into a media storm after being accused by mathematicians of trying to claim credit for their solution to an extremely difficult math problem. But a person familiar with the solution said that OpenAI is now close to solving another mathematical challenge in the Millennium Prize Problems. The source said that employees expect the next problem—namely, the Hodge conjecture—will be solved soon.

However, the person said the company may need more time to release a solution because it is trying to collaborate with the mathematical community to ensure that when it makes an announcement, it will not trigger another public-relations crisis. The report said that while solving these problems is not cheap, some of OpenAI’s researchers believe that after software engineering, mathematics is the next natural area its models should explore. These two fields share similar characteristics: both require step-by-step logical reasoning, and the answers they produce can often be automatically verified as correct. Some researchers even believe that the wave of automation that occurred in software engineering over the past year will sweep into the field of mathematics within the next six to nine months. In addition, tackling deep mathematical problems can help AI developers advance the automation of machine-learning research—a field that involves a great deal of mathematics. (Jin10)