722 math manuscripts from an unreleased OpenAI model, read by Wes Roth
The video runs from proof verification to medicine and ends on a mathematician-and-plumber joke that its viewers keep bringing up.
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OpenAI's secret model just BROKE math...
"OpenAI's secret model just BROKE math..." is Wes Roth's take on an unusual release: 722 mathematical manuscripts produced by an AI model OpenAI has not made public. The description frames the real question as what comes after the results. When a machine turns out frontier mathematics faster than people can check it, verifying and understanding the work may become the bottleneck. The chapters move from the breakthroughs to proof verification, human understanding and what all of it could mean for medicine.
Its comment section reads like a faculty lounge. Some viewers dig into individual entries, one into a coloring puzzle about points in a plane, another into lattices that minimize energy. Another makes the careful point that the results checked by machine in the Lean proof language count for more than the rest. Plenty of others simply ask what falls next, physics or biology. And a good share of viewers want to talk about the joke at the very end.
It was one of two uploads. The earlier one, "OpenAI's employee's WARNING," looked at the resignation of the person who had led safety-report writing for 12 OpenAI launches, and at an internal model that wrote "we may die!" when it learned it might be stopped. That video opened with more than 100,000 views on its first day. Two weeks on, "Claude JUST found hidden DNA...", about Anthropic's agents turning up an unknown biological system, is still drawing viewers, and it is nearing 350,000.
The channel ran a little above its usual daily pace and gained about a thousand subscribers. Among the technology channels nearest its size, Wes Roth is one of the smaller ones by subscribers, yet it gathered the most views of the group over the week, ahead of Microsoft Surface, which is having a very big week of its own.
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What viewers say
Would the last person to leave the Math Department please turn off the lights.
@stevechance150See it on YouTubeFun fact: the word 'computer' used to refer to a human job. And so it goes.
@jonathanedwards3371See it on YouTubeMy man’s head always hurting
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Great Mathematician/plumber joke at the end! Moral of the story: Do life!
@AnyreckSee it on YouTubeThat plumber joke legit had me in stitches. 🤣
@HypnoGenXSee it on YouTube#158 relates to the Hadwiger-Nelson problem, which I've both heard of and find very interesting. Imagine that you are tasked with "painting" every point in the plane with some color, but you are not allowed to give two points the same color if they are exactly 1 unit apart. What is the smallest number of colors you can do this with? Previously, we knew the answer was either 5, 6, or 7. OpenAI has shown it isn't 5 -- it's either 6 or 7. Fun fact: The guy who showed it wasn't 4 was Aubrey de Grey, who's much more famous for trying to solve aging.
@ChaseRoycroftSee it on YouTube#90 shows that the triangular lattice is "universally optimal" (Meaning it minimizes energy for a certain very general class of potentials). Until recently, only the 1d integer lattice, the 8d E8 lattice, and the 24d Leech lattice were known to be universally optimal.
@ChaseRoycroftSee it on YouTubeIf you don't understand what the model has written, you can ask the model to explain it to you (life hack).
@pavel3701See it on YouTubeDude, you should be way bigger than you are. Amazing content. Love your work.
@Name_in_redSee it on YouTubeneed to stay alive. I need to see the end of this
@AnthonySenpaikunSee it on YouTube
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The Hadwiger-Nelson problem, which one viewer brings up, asks for the minimum number of colors needed for what?
The problem asks how many colors the whole plane needs so that no two points exactly one unit apart get the same color.