{"id":968892,"date":"2025-10-22T11:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=968892"},"modified":"2025-10-22T11:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:38:27","slug":"google-deepmind-ceo-calls-maths-breakthrough-claim-of-leading-openai-researcher-embarrassing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/22\/google-deepmind-ceo-calls-maths-breakthrough-claim-of-leading-openai-researcher-embarrassing\/","title":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind CEO calls &#8216;Maths breakthrough&#8217; claim of leading OpenAI researcher, &#8216;Embarrassing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s claim that GPT-5 had solved ten of Paul Erd\u0151s\u2019s famous \u201cunsolved\u201d math problems has drawn sharp backlash from across the AI industry, after experts revealed the model merely rediscovered existing solutions. The announcement, initially framed as a landmark breakthrough in automated reasoning, was swiftly condemned by Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis as \u201cembarrassing,\u201d while Meta\u2019s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun accused OpenAI of succumbing to its own hype.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy began when OpenAI VP Kevin Weil tweeted that GPT-5 had found solutions to ten unsolved Erdos problems and made progress on eleven others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s claim that GPT-5 had solved ten of Paul Erd\u0151s\u2019s famous \u201cunsolved\u201d math problems has drawn sharp backlash from across the AI industry, after experts revealed the model merely rediscovered existing solutions. The announcement, initially framed as a landmark breakthrough in automated reasoning, was swiftly condemned by Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis as \u201cembarrassing,\u201d while Meta\u2019s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun accused OpenAI of succumbing to its own hype. The controversy began when OpenAI VP Kevin Weil tweeted that GPT-5 had found solutions to ten unsolved Erdos problems and made progress on eleven others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}