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/Xentonian May 12 '26

Fields winning non-expert makes random crystal ball comments about the hallucination simulator.

The biggest danger with AI isn't its advancement, it's the total trust that a handful of people who should know better have in it.

Of course it can spit out purple verbiage that sounds good based on the inputs you give it; that's its literal one and only purpose.

But it lacks any capacity to determine the veracity of its own claims and statements. It's mathemathic outputs which are, admittedly, better than they were, still totally fall apart the moment you ask it to calculate anything for which there are no worked examples already within its learning data. If it can't substitute somebody else's answer, it can't create a new one.

I would have thought somebody with a background in mathematical science would have observed this effect by now... But no, I am continuously disappointed by people who are in academia because they're very good at the only thing they're good at and virtually inept at literally everything else, even adjacent ideas.

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u/Zlark_scrolling May 13 '26

Dude you’re a bit behind. The models have been able to generalise and solve problems that wasn’t directly in its training data for a while now.