Category Archives: AI

The Yang-Mills Publicity Stunt

Posted on November 11, 2026 by woit

The “shepherds” of the OpenAI Yang-Mills proof yesterday released the Lean code of the proof, together with a validation and an assessment. The OpenAI press release of October 26 claimed to have proved “Existence of quantum chromodynamics and completions of … Continue reading →

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OpenAI Conference at KITP

Posted on November 2, 2026 by woit

There was a conference held at KITP the week before last entitled Intermediate-Scale AI for Physics. The nature of this conference was somewhat of a mystery. As far as I can tell it never appeared in the list of forthcoming … Continue reading →

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Secret Unified Physics Slop

Posted on October 26, 2026 by woit

OpenAI has announced a mathematically rigorous existence proof of certain interacting quantum field theories containing gauge fields and fermions in four dimensions, including Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and a unified completion of the Standard Model of particle physics… Our models produced … Continue reading →

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AI and Chiral Fermions

Posted on October 8, 2026 by woit

It turns out that yesterday there was another AI result coming out of OpenAI, quite different than the slopocalypse and of more interest to fundamental physics. Nathaniel Craig, a particle theorist now on a one-year visiting position at OpenAI, put … Continue reading →

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Slopocalypse

Posted on October 6, 2026 by woit

OpenAI has just released a vast number of new results in preprint form, see here. These are the products of an internal frontier model. About the AGMAI, they say they “have drawn on their advice and public recommendations⁠ to inform … Continue reading →

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Some HEP-TH News

Posted on September 25, 2026 by woit

In a previous posting, I’d noted that the number of arXiv hep-th preprints/month was significantly higher recently, clearly due to LLM use, but that I hadn’t heard of much in the way of significant new results coming from this. Around … Continue reading →

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A Modest Proposal

Posted on September 9, 2026 by woit

The announcement yesterday by OpenAI of a solution to the Millennium Prize Navier-Stokes problem has been causing a great deal of discussion among mathematicians. There’s a lot to be said about this story and its implications, most of which I’ll … Continue reading →

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HEP-TH and AI

Posted on August 16, 2026 by woit

I’ve been talking to people and seeing a lot of discussion about the effects of AI agents on math research, but haven’t found much serious discussion of what is happening in hep-th research. I’m curious to hear from those involved … Continue reading →

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Requiem for a Field?

Posted on July 26, 2026 by woit

Kevin Hartnett posted the following Friday: My profile of @Jacob_Tsimerman, published the morning he won the Fields Medal, and hours before he announced he’s going to @OpenAI, reads like a requiem for a field. While I’m trying to not spend … Continue reading →

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The First AI QFT Textbook

Posted on June 7, 2026 by woit

The first surprise of this afternoon was finally finding an informed and sensible discussion of the implications of AI agents for hep-th research, in the form of a twitter thread by stringking42069. The second was learning from the twitter thread … Continue reading →

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