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Norms and disputes over who gets credit for a scientific result, covering citation, priority, coauthorship and the record of who contributed what.
A proof checker confirmed the steps of OpenAI's Navier-Stokes result within days. The argument now running through mathematics is over who explains the 166 pages and who gets the credit for them.
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Days after Caltech mathematicians called AI "slop mathematics" research misconduct, OpenAI's research lead said the company would stop sponsoring their competition. Organizers say they are talking to other firms.
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With Navier-Stokes claimed and five Millennium problems left, the ordering of what falls next turns on which conjectures a single counterexample would settle. Five million dollars of Clay prize money is still unclaimed.
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Buckmaster was preparing to publish when OpenAI announced it had solved the problem and offered him a share of the credit. A second mathematician, Andreas Thom, then asked the company whether his own ChatGPT conversations had reached its model.
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A week and a half after accusing OpenAI of copying his approach to a problem carrying a $1 million bounty, the NYU mathematician is still running the company's coding agent on his own papers.
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