I interpret you as insinuating that not disclosing that it was a project commissioned by industry was strategic.
I’m not necessarily implying that they explicitly/deliberately coordinated on this.
Perhaps there was no explicit “don’t mention OpenAI” policy but there was no “person X is responsible for ensuring that mathematicians know about OpenAI’s involvement” policy either.
But given that some of the mathematicians haven’t heard a word about OpenAI’s involvement from the Epoch team, it seems like Epoc at least had a reason not to mention OpenAI’s involvement (though this depends on how extensive communication between the two sides was). Possibly because they were aware of how they might react, both before the project started, as well as in the middle of it.
[ETA: In short, I would have expected this information to reach the mathematicians with high probability, unless the Epoch team had been disinclined to inform the mathematicians.]
Obviously, I’m just speculating here and the non-Epoch mathematicians involved in creation of FrontierMath know better than whatever I might speculate out of this.
I’m not necessarily implying that they explicitly/deliberately coordinated on this.
Perhaps there was no explicit “don’t mention OpenAI” policy but there was no “person X is responsible for ensuring that mathematicians know about OpenAI’s involvement” policy either.
But given that some of the mathematicians haven’t heard a word about OpenAI’s involvement from the Epoch team, it seems like Epoc at least had a reason not to mention OpenAI’s involvement (though this depends on how extensive communication between the two sides was). Possibly because they were aware of how they might react, both before the project started, as well as in the middle of it.
[ETA: In short, I would have expected this information to reach the mathematicians with high probability, unless the Epoch team had been disinclined to inform the mathematicians.]
Obviously, I’m just speculating here and the non-Epoch mathematicians involved in creation of FrontierMath know better than whatever I might speculate out of this.