OpenAI AI Finds Counterexample To Decades-Old Math Theory

OpenAI's AI helped overturn a longstanding math conjecture by finding a counterexample, highlighting a powerful new way to ...
Wired

‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks a Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture

They made some progress, re-proving the conjecture in two dimensions using different techniques—ones they hoped would be applicable to the three-dimensional case. But then they hit a wall. “At some ...

An OpenAI Model ‘Disproved’ a Famous Math Conjecture. This Mathematician Couldn’t Leave It Alone

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal ...
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AI Math Breakthrough: OpenAI Disproves 80-Year Erdős Conjecture

An OpenAI model disproved the 80-year-old Erdős unit distance conjecture, and Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solved nine more open problems days later. Together, these AI math breakthroughs mark a ...
Nature

Rigor with machine learning from field theory to the Poincaré conjecture

Despite their successes, machine learning techniques are often stochastic, error-prone and blackbox. How could they then be used in fields such as theoretical physics and pure mathematics for which ...