An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years
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 mathematicians for the last 80 years. 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 the solution to the unit-distance problem is a milestone in AI mathematics.” University o
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