Altman says OpenAI holds more unpublished science breakthroughs
Speaking on the Cheeky Pint podcast, the OpenAI CEO said the company should not sit on a major fundamental discovery.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company has more unpublished fundamental science and math breakthroughs, and that releasing them should not be slowed. He made the remarks on the Cheeky Pint podcast.
Altman argued that humanity deserves fundamental knowledge and that OpenAI should not sit on a major fundamental science discovery. He also said the company's pursuit of mathematical challenges got out of control at times.
As context, OpenAI published 722 manuscripts on 400 problems on GitHub, according to Wired, and researchers have criticized the publication of those results for inadequate attribution and questionable verification.
Thore Husfeldt, a researcher at the IT University of Copenhagen, Peter Jonsson, a professor at Linköping University, and Daniel Lokshtanov, a professor at UC Santa Barbara, are among the researchers who have raised concerns, according to the same reporting.
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What did Sam Altman say about unpublished OpenAI research?
On the Cheeky Pint podcast, Altman said OpenAI has more unpublished fundamental science and math breakthroughs and that humanity deserves fundamental knowledge.
What concerns have researchers raised about OpenAI's published results?
Researchers criticized the results for inadequate attribution and questionable verification, and OpenAI's work was published without peer review or independent verification, according to Wired.