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ChatGPT didn't actually solve those Erdős problems

2025-10-20 20:33:27.156858+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Kevin Beaumont @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them

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Thomas Bloom @thomasfbloom

Hi, as the owner/maintainer of http://erdosproblems.com, this is a dramatic misrepresentation. GPT-5 found references, which solved these problems, that I personally was unaware of.

The 'open' status only means I personally am unaware of a paper which solves it.

Yann LeCun @ylecun (of Meta):

Hoisted by their own GPTards

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