It seems like part of the reason openai did what it did by not giving a heads up to the researchers about the release of the problems was that they might just want to divert resources away from math and become a math research entity unto themselves. The be all and end all of these research areas that AI is really good at. Like if you are beginning your math career you might just thing, why don't I just interview at openai, they seem to have a math "department"?
It's a bit crazy to imagine that world where frontier academic research as a publicly funded thing to train next generation could be dead and reborn in the hands of corporations.
It's a bit crazy to imagine that world where frontier academic research as a publicly funded thing to train next generation could be dead and reborn in the hands of corporations.