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Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematic…
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Tim Gowers —who won the Fields Medal, the most prestigious prize in mathematics—wrote that “there is no doubt that the solution to the unit-distance problem is a milestone in AI mathematics.” University of Toronto professor Daniel Litt wrote that “this is the first example of a result produced autonomously by an AI…
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- OpenAI gave several mathematicians early access to the result and published their reactions .
- Tim Gowers —who won the Fields Medal, the most prestigious prize in mathematics—wrote that “there is no doubt that th…
Why it matters
Tim Gowers —who won the Fields Medal, the most prestigious prize in mathematics—wrote that “there is no doubt that th…
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