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 it matters.
OpenAI makes big splash with AI finding math problem breakthrough. Real lesson is to use AI to find counterexamples. An AI ...
The puzzle poses a deceptively simple question that boils down to: How many pairs of dots on a piece of paper can be the same ...
A chatbot’s result for the 80-year-old “unit distance” conjecture is the first AI proof that would likely be published in ...
A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses ...
For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the ...
Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős’ ‘planar unit distance conjecture’ has stood since 1946 – but an AI disproof has made ...
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 ...