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Reddit user questions "stolen" Millennium Problem solutions narrative

A Reddit post discusses the narrative surrounding "stolen" solutions to the Millennium Prize Problems, questioning the idea that scientists were on the verge of solving them before AI potentially incorporated their work into training data. The author finds it implausible that these scientists, after decades of work, were close to a breakthrough that could have been "stolen." AI

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Reddit user questions "stolen" Millennium Problem solutions narrative

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  1. r/singularity TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/Apollo18Teslaa ·

    The stolen millennium problem narrative is hilarious to me

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>You expect me to believe that the solutions were stolen from scientists who have had decades to work on this problem. We may never know whether any of the scientist notes made it into the training data, but I find the idea that after having decad…