Very serious for mathematicians - not for ML researchers.
If the paper would not have had the AI spin, would those 10 questions still have been interesting?
It seems to me that we have here a paper that is solely interesting because of the AI spin -- while at the same time this AI spin is really poorly executed from the point of AI research, where this should be a blog post at most, not an arXiv preprint.
I’m confused by this comment. I’m pretty sure that someone at all the bigs labs is running these questions through their models and will report back as soon as the results arrive (if not sooner, assuming they can somehow verify the answers).
The fact that you find it odd that this landed on arXiv is maybe a cultural thing… mathematicians kinda reflexively throw work up there that they think should be taken seriously. I doubt that they intend to publish it in a peer reviewed journal.
The timed-reveal aspect is also interesting.
How is that interesting for a scientific point of view? This seems more like a social experiment dressed as science.
Science should be about reproducibility, and almost nothing here is reproducible.
Reproducibility is just one aspect of science, logic + reasoning from principles and data is the major aspect.
There are some experiments which cannot be carried out more than once.