// THE VERGE — INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE
Researchers are getting tired of OpenAI gatekeeping its breakthroughs
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Expert ‘shepherds’ will decide how best to share the latest breakthroughs in computer science and physics.
Expert ‘shepherds’ will decide how best to share the latest breakthroughs in computer science and physics.
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On Monday, OpenAI announced impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, computer science, and physics, along with what the company says is an evolving approach to communicating its findings. But despite its apparent course correction, researchers who spoke to The Verge are growing increasingly tired of the company’s antics.
It has been a turbulent few months between OpenAI and mathematicians, who are still grappling with the hundreds of preprints unceremoniously dumped on them at the start of October. This time, OpenAI says it is working with expert “shepherds” to decide how best to share its latest breakthroughs.
All three results concern some of the most consequential unsolved problems in mathematics, computer science, and physics. Some extend OpenAI’s previous work and others break new ground. Following advice from OpenAI’s “shepherds,” each has a different release strategy. For the mathematics result, OpenAI released the AI-generated output, “leaving researchers free to organize their own efforts to explain the result.” For its computer science finding, OpenAI will also assemble an external group of researchers “to explain the result.” Physics, meanwhile, has not been released at all, and OpenAI said it will “defer” to an external group of experts about how to release the materials.