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Mathematicians stunned by AI's biggest breakthrough in mathematics yet
An 80-year-old maths conjecture that has eluded the world’s greatest mathematicians has been cracked by an artificial intelligence model built by OpenAI.
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An 80-year-old maths conjecture that has eluded the world’s greatest mathematicians has been cracked by an artificial intelligence model built by OpenAI. The result has stunned experts and is being hailed as a seismic moment for AI’s mathematical ability. “This is a problem that I didn’t expect to see solved in my lifetime,” says Misha Rudnev at the University of Bristol, UK. “It’s absolutely a bomb.”
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