The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to ...
Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) ...
In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in ...
In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem that had stymied mathematicians for a century. In this case, the solvers weren't human. An artificial ...
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Mathematicians puzzled over a famous problem for 80 years. Now, they've used AI to identify a clever solution
Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you ...
Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem. The most extreme promises ...
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