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

ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.

A breakthrough from an OpenAI model would have meant nothing without humans to make sense of it.

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The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the ten questions right.

For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...