ScienceBBCThe maths bust-up fuelling fears that AI is undermining science
Questions are swirling about whether OpenAI's AI used a rival mathematician's unpublished work to claim it solved a famous unsolved maths problem.
AI has made some awesome scientific discoveries. But now, questions are being raised about its accuracy
OpenAI claimed its AI agents solved the famous Navier-Stokes equations in 88 hours, but a mathematician raised concerns his unpublished work may have fed into the result.
Tristan Buckmaster of NYU said his research was stored in OpenAI's Codex tool and asked whether it could have influenced the company's AI, though he stressed he was not accusing anyone.
OpenAI later said Buckmaster's prompts could not have influenced its system, but the dispute has sparked wider debate about transparency and trust in AI-assisted science.
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