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This incident highlights a fundamental issue with the hype surrounding AI achievements. OpenAI's claims, while framed as groundbreaking, were exaggerated or at least misinterpreted. The company portrayed GPT-5's literature search abilities as solving previously unsolved mathematical problems—an overstatement, according to Bloom and others. The tools' ability to quickly find relevant papers is undoubtedly valuable for researchers, but it isn't equivalent to problem-solving or mathematical ingenuity.
Moreover, the hype potentially misleads the broader audience into believing that AI is capable of more than it currently can do. Just because an AI finds relevant research papers doesn’t mean it is developing new theories or proofs—it only indicates capacity for information retrieval.