OpenAI announces three big science discoveries and a new way to work with academics
Less than a month after its mass release of hundreds of manuscripts that it said contained solutions to long-standing mathematics questions, OpenAI is back with three more "major" discoveries in math, computer science, and physics. What's different this time is the choice to have external experts that OpenAI describes as "shepherds" guiding the results in […]
We would welcome discussion of three broader questions:
What expectations should govern early access to AI-generated results, disclosure of conflicts of interest, and the use of unpublished material for subsequent research?
How should credit recognize both new discoveries and the work of checking, fixing, simplifying, explaining, and extending them?
How can we support students and researchers as methods and research directions change, while preserving the understanding and judgment needed to question results and develop new ideas?
Originally published on The Verge
