Fields Medalist Deng Yu comments on AI companies' anti-distillation: You can't support distillation only when you're distilling all of humanity's knowledge yourselves

Deng Yu, Fields Medalist and professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago, criticized AI companies in a speech at the "Intellectuals" and "Mr. Science" forums for refusing to disclose their chains of thought under the pretext of "preventing distillation," arguing that this does not conform to academic norms. He pointed out that AI companies are very open when they distill all of humanity's knowledge, yet when others merely want to understand the chain of thought, they are accused of distillation. Deng Yu proposed open-sourcing mathematical models so that the mathematics community can have its own models and follow academic norms such as data usage, chain-of-thought disclosure, and traceability.