The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why ...
Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians ...
In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in ...
AI solved a math problem that stumped experts for 80 years, revealing deeper lessons about human cognition, focus, and ...
For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the planar unit distance problem. The question posed by the legendary Hungarian ...
The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.
OpenAI says an AI reasoning model disproved an 80-year-old Erdős geometry conjecture, raising new questions about AI’s role ...
The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got ...
In September 2019, news broke regarding progress on this 82-year-old question, thanks to prolific mathematician Terence Tao. And while the story of Tao's breakthrough is promising, the problem isn't ...