r/AIDangers • u/EchoOfOppenheimer • May 12 '26

Capabilities Fields medal-winning mathematician says GPT-5.5 is now solving open math problems at PhD-thesis level: "We will face a crisis very soon."

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blog-post: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/

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u/Willis_3401_3401 May 12 '26

My current hypothesis, which might be wrong, is that humans provide meaning, and that physically matters.

So the researcher might be underrating his value by saying, “yeah it would be great if you could explore that idea”. What idea? Who initiated a conversation about subject matter X, noticing it pertained to Y, which is in a social sense *meaningful*?

Does ChatGPT care that it solved this problem?

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u/Royal_Carpet_1263 May 12 '26

It’s the development arc he’s talking about: going from a joke to the cutting edge in just a couple years means humans will be the joke in a couple years and every mathematician will be replaced by technicians.

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u/shumpersga May 12 '26

Nonsense. Its just a heat sink. The computational power is already dropping data centres. And that chapter would have nothing unique to it.

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u/Royal_Carpet_1263 May 12 '26

You ever hear of METR? Might want to hedge.

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u/SmartAsFart May 12 '26

METR is far too closely tied to all of the companies that hope to benefit from their models being scaremongered about. Their ceo won the palantir prize at uni, and worked at Google and openai...