Immediate Release of OpenAI’s Fundamental Physics Results
To OpenAI and its leadership, research teams, and scientific collaborators,
we respectfully call upon OpenAI to immediately release any results, proofs, or significant progress it has achieved concerning the mathematical existence of Yang–Mills theory, quantum chromodynamics (QCD), and a possible completion of the Standard Model of particle physics.
These questions lie at the heart of our understanding of nature. The mathematical existence of Yang–Mills quantum field theory in four-dimensional spacetime, including the problem of establishing a mass gap, remains one of the great open challenges in mathematical physics and is recognized by the Clay Mathematics Institute as a Millennium Prize Problem. Quantum chromodynamics describes the strong interaction, while the Standard Model provides our most successful framework for understanding fundamental particles and three of the four known fundamental interactions.
As artificial intelligence systems become increasingly capable of assisting with advanced mathematics and scientific research, any genuine breakthroughs achieved with their help could be of extraordinary importance to science and humanity.
The fundamental laws of nature are a subject of interest to all humanity. Progress in understanding them should, wherever possible, be supported by openness, independent scrutiny, and international scientific collaboration.
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Scientific results must available to everybody. To begin with, because we need independent eyes to assess and check the correctness of the claims made, i.e. independent scrutinity. To continue with, because scientific knowledge can only progress if new results/claims become clear and robust, and accepted as such by a majority of experts. Science is a collective endeveour of humankind: without transparency, there is no science.
science should be open and transparent
Because openness is essential to science. The mere fact that the results are obtained with high-level LLMs which are kept secret and only available to those paid by the AI private companies is destructive for what scientific progress and what science is about. But in this case, on top of that, the Lean-processed results are kept for the eyes of just a few digesters, until these decide that the rest of mortals can see them! No. We must aim for an open-weight public AI for science.
Scientific result must available to everybody. It is deeply against the spirit of science that a reduced group decides whether to open to the community an important result or delays its release.
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Immediate Release of OpenAI’s Fundamental Physics Results
To OpenAI and its leadership, research teams, and scientific collaborators,
we respectfully call upon OpenAI to immediately release any results, proofs, or significant progress it has achieved concerning the mathematical existence of Yang–Mills theory, quantum chromodynamics (QCD), and a possible completion of the Standard Model of particle physics.
These questions lie at the heart of our understanding of nature. The mathematical existence of Yang–Mills quantum field theory in four-dimensional spacetime, including the problem of establishing a mass gap, remains one of the great open challenges in mathematical physics and is recognized by the Clay Mathematics Institute as a Millennium Prize Problem. Quantum chromodynamics describes the strong interaction, while the Standard Model provides our most successful framework for understanding fundamental particles and three of the four known fundamental interactions.
As artificial intelligence systems become increasingly capable of assisting with advanced mathematics and scientific research, any genuine breakthroughs achieved with their help could be of extraordinary importance to science and humanity.
The fundamental laws of nature are a subject of interest to all humanity. Progress in understanding them should, wherever possible, be supported by openness, independent scrutiny, and international scientific collaboration.
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Treating LLMs as oracles and elevating near-retirement physicists to priesthood is not the way to go.
Scientific results must available to everybody. To begin with, because we need independent eyes to assess and check the correctness of the claims made, i.e. independent scrutinity. To continue with, because scientific knowledge can only progress if new results/claims become clear and robust, and accepted as such by a majority of experts. Science is a collective endeveour of humankind: without transparency, there is no science.
science should be open and transparent
Because openness is essential to science. The mere fact that the results are obtained with high-level LLMs which are kept secret and only available to those paid by the AI private companies is destructive for what scientific progress and what science is about. But in this case, on top of that, the Lean-processed results are kept for the eyes of just a few digesters, until these decide that the rest of mortals can see them! No. We must aim for an open-weight public AI for science.
Scientific result must available to everybody. It is deeply against the spirit of science that a reduced group decides whether to open to the community an important result or delays its release.
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Treating LLMs as oracles and elevating near-retirement physicists to priesthood is not the way to go.