""Hoisted by their own GPTards." That's how Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5's supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, "this is embarrassing." The Decoder reports that in a since-deleted tweet, OpenAI VP Kevin Weil declared that "GPT-5 found solutions to 10 (!) previously unsolved Erdős problems and made progress on 11 others.""
"However, mathematician Thomas Bloom, who maintains the Erdos Problems website, said Weil's post was "a dramatic misrepresentation" - while these problems were indeed listed as "open" on Bloom's website, he said that only means, "I personally am unaware of a paper which solves it." Instead, Bloom wrote, "GPT-5 found references, which solved these problems, that I personally was unaware of.""
A claim circulated that GPT-5 solved ten previously unsolved Erdős problems and made progress on eleven others. The claim appeared in a since-deleted social post reporting those results. A curator of an Erdos problems list clarified that the listed problems had existing solutions in the literature that were unknown to the curator, calling the claim a dramatic misrepresentation. GPT-5 located references to existing solutions rather than producing novel proofs. An OpenAI researcher acknowledged that only literature solutions were found and characterized the retrieval as a notable accomplishment given the difficulty of thorough literature search.
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