Trading squishable toys might impact your kids more than you’d think.

During World War II, statistics helped the Allies estimate the number of enemy tanks, which proved essential in the decisive ...

When checking that solutions to certain problems are correct, it turns out, you can’t get around the inherent complexity of ...

Mistral AI has released Leanstral 1.5 as a free Apache-2.0 model for Lean 4 verification. Lean 4 is a proof-assistant and programming environment for machine-checkable proofs, and proof engineering ...

Artificial intelligence was beaten by humans in solving 10 complicated mathematical problems within the “First Proof” project. The project was ...

The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to everyone.

Mathematicians are setting some boundaries. Today, 16 mathematicians in consultation with peers and relevant organizations published the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics.

A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline. By Siobhan Roberts Recently there ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics. Reading time 10 minutes Will ...

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 ...

OpenAI’s latest artificial intelligence model has achieved a breakthrough that is attracting attention far beyond the technology industry after reportedly solving a mathematical problem that had ...

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