This is a wild detail to just bury at the bottom. So many companies went all-in on Deno in recent years. Some even did major migrations off Node.js. Sucks for them I guess, but that's always the risk in chasing the shiny new thing over sticking to the old and dependable.
The people who released the papers weren't randos either. OpenAI has a ton of mathematicians on staff, including Jacob Tsimerman, a fields medal winner.
Scientific progress used to be people debating and correcting other people. Now it's going to be people with AI assistance debating and correcting other people with AI assistance.
NSF by itself contributes $200-300M a year towards math grants. Universities spend a billion+. Add corporate funding and other sources (DoD, other government agencies, private foundations) and you’re easily looking at a few billion dollars a year just in the US going to mathematicians.
What’s the nuance? Two researchers alleged theft. OpenAI investigated and confirmed that their research was not in the model’s training data. The world decided to take the first part as objective truth and ignored the second.
It's unfortunate how toxic media reporting on AI has become. Everyone has abandoned even the pretence of objectivity. I know NYT is uniquely biased in this regard, but there was no need to add "Further Roiling Field" in the headline. Like, you published this minutes after OpenAI's announcement and claim to capture how the entire field of mathematics feels about the advancement? Before anyone has had a chance to even read let alone digest it?
So they set up a whole "Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence", filled it with renowned academics, promised to listen to the group on "review and communication of emerging results"...and then a week later went nah, we are just going to dump it all on github. OpenAI truly is a special company - in the best and worst way.
What makes you think no one can comprehend this? It has been less than an hour since it dropped and there is already a ton of online chatter from people explaining the results, pointing out their favorites and more. Some of it is happening on this very thread.
One of the examples on the docs page is it playing a video game. Doubt it’ll be able to run anything complex though. You’re simply trading accuracy for speed.
Why no mention of any dates in the post? There have been plenty of examples of OpenAI agents writing to wikis (the German one for example) or worse (huggingface) before June. If something like it happened again after all their public apologies and promises to fix their training sandbox and alignment issues then it would be a lot more concerning.
What "whistleblowing" is in this article? Are there any names? Documents? Screenshots? Messages? Emails? Any evidence of the loose safety practices? Anything that implicates any higher ups for wrongdoing? They spent four years at the comany, plenty of time to collect all of this. Everything they've said has already been clear as day to people on the outside.
"OpenAI is shady" isn't some massive secret. There's no big reveal in this article that we didn't know already. There are no names, no whistleblowing, no information of substance that we can act upon. In fact him realizing only now what people on the ouside have been shouting for years perfectly shows his bias in the matter.