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(Bloomberg Opinion) — OpenAI’s path to building super-intelligent machines is looking ever fuzzier.
The latest sign came from an embarrassing blunder by the company’s leading scientists over the weekend. “GPT-5 just found solutions to 10 (!) previously unsolved Erdös problems,” the company’s vice president for science, Kevin Weil, breathlessly posted on X in a post that has since been deleted.
It turned out that wasn’t true. The company’s latest model had simply scraped answers off the internet and regurgitated them as its own.
Many…
