OpenAI¡¯s path to building superintelligent machines is looking ever fuzzier.
The latest sign came from an embarrassing blunder by the company¡¯s leading scientists this month. ¡°GPT-5 just found solutions to 10 (!) previously unsolved Erdos problems,¡± the company¡¯s vice president for science, Kevin Weil, breathlessly posted on X in a post that has since been deleted.
It turned out that was misleading. The company¡¯s latest model had simply scraped answers off the internet and regurgitated them as its own.
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