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Selke: AI might plausibly never solve problems like P versus NP
“Even if AI get, you know, continues getting, like, exponentially better at math, like, it might, you know, plausible will never solve something like P versus NP.”
Mark Selke Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 1:02:50 Inside OpenAI’s Breakthroughs in Mathematical Reasoning
Assertion Supported
Selke: OpenAI models discovered better bounds for spherical and binary codes
“Our models found better bounds for these cases as well.”
Mark Selke Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 33:52 Inside OpenAI’s Breakthroughs in Mathematical Reasoning
Assertion Supported
Selke: OpenAI's Astra proved that a non-sofic group exists
“So, so the result that Astra proved is simply that there exists a non-sulfic group.”
Mark Selke Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 47:03 Inside OpenAI’s Breakthroughs in Mathematical Reasoning
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Selke: Only humans can generate 200-page mathematical proofs right now
“Like, only humans can generate, like, 200 page proofs right now.”
Mark Selke Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 56:38 Inside OpenAI’s Breakthroughs in Mathematical Reasoning
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Selke: Non-mathematicians will be able to use advanced math without experts
“The ability of someone who's not working on math is, like, their literal job all the time to, like, understand what's going on and, like, you know, learn about some of the mysteries they might have wondered about will go up quite a lot. Also, you know, if you'…”
Mark Selke Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 1:04:02 Inside OpenAI’s Breakthroughs in Mathematical Reasoning
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Selke: OpenAI's Astra improved bounds further simply when prompted again
“In, in this case, what the model was asked to do originally for codes was to improve the bounds by, like, some exponential factor, so it really, like, shows up in this, like, leading constant up here. And, you know, it improved the bounds, and it didn't try to…”
Mark Selke Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 36:57 Inside OpenAI’s Breakthroughs in Mathematical Reasoning
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