OpenAI claims its newest internal AI model has produced 372 mathematical and theoretical computer-science results, just one month after the company announced an AI-assisted solution to the Navier–Stok
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Recent claims from researchers suggest that generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, have solved some Erdős Problems, a collection of over 1,000 mathematical questions. OpenAI celebrated this achievement