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‘Slop mathematics’: OpenAI walks away from a Caltech AI maths contest
OpenAI has pulled its $1m sponsorship of a student-run AI maths event at Caltech. Mathematicians had signed an open letter calling for the event to be scrapped. The next day, 25 Fields Medallists published a separate declaration of their…
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