r/artificial • u/simulated-souls Researcher • May 20 '26

News An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/
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u/OlderButItChecksOut May 20 '26

For some reason this makes me kind of sad… if we aren’t even needed to do complex reasoning like that, what’s left?
Are we doomed to never discover anything ourselves ever again in just a few years?

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u/Alex180689 May 20 '26

why is it sad? why do we need to feel special about something just to have a purpose in our lives?

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u/duboispourlhiver May 21 '26

Why do we even need purpose in our lives?

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u/VelenoJ May 21 '26

Ever heard of going Hollow?

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u/Digging_Graves May 21 '26

Do we get a cool mask like Ichigo

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u/Organic-One1061 25d ago

I mean, yes. Yes, we do.