Racing to solve maths problems now 'pointless', says Australian at centre of OpenAI controversy

Tristan Buckmaster, a Melbourne-born professor at New York University, claims that artificial intelligence has made the race to publish mathematical breakthroughs pointless.

Buckmaster is at the centre of a controversy over a claimed solution to one of the world's most difficult unsolved mathematical problems, and has warned about the centralisation of resources into the hands of a small number of private owners.