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AI is solving science's hardest problems
AI models have jumped from solving 2 percent to 35 percent of theoretical physics and maths problems in just two years, upending multiple scientific fields.
WIRED · 1m
AI Sucks Joy from Math
AI solves math problems, leaving mathematicians to wonder if their work has lost meaning.
Straight Arrow · 1m
OpenAI's math breakthroughs shake mathematics
OpenAI's 377 new machine-generated math papers solve decades-old problems without human intervention.
Nationalpost · 1m
AI Throwing a Roadside Picnic
AI's rapid science discoveries overwhelm human understanding, creating chaos like alien artifacts.
Substack · 1m
OpenAI's math deluge leaves researchers reeling
Nearly 400 AI-generated mathematical results have upended careers and research plans, leaving mathematicians years of work to verify what is real.
The Verge · 4m
OpenAI's math dump wipes out researchers' work
An NYU professor says OpenAI's release of over 700 math papers destroyed early-career researchers' projects in a single day.
Business Insider · 1m
AI Breaks Intellectual Communities
AI dissolves human intellectual communities, making private intellectual activity rarer.
Fernando Borretti · 1m
What should we tell our students?
Will AI replace mathematicians? A professor answers.
What's new · 2m
OpenAI's math proofs fall short of expert standards
OpenAI released hundreds of solutions to hard math problems, but mathematicians say the lab ignored key guidelines on human understanding and formal verification.
TechCrunch · 2m
AI's brute force threatens math's creative soul
OpenAI solved a decades-old puzzle using thousands of agents, but mathematicians worry the speed of AI proofs could destroy the understanding that drives discovery.
WIRED · 3m
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South Africa honours teachers reshaping education
The National Teaching Awards celebrated educators who visit homes, run weekend classes and teach children to read against the odds.
Daily Maverick · 2m
OpenAI keeps bulldozing mathematicians
OpenAI forms an advisory group of elite mathematicians to manage its flood of breakthroughs, but the rollout has already damaged trust.
The Verge · 3m
Announcing the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Mathematicians and AI companies form independent group to guide responsible math research.
What's new · 2m
Why Backprop Goes Backward
Backpropagation uses backward passes to compute neural network gradients efficiently.
Gregorygundersen · 1m
Fahrenheit Celsius Equal Point
The temperature where Fahrenheit and Celsius scales match.
Slate Magazine · 1m
AI cracks century-old math problem
OpenAI solves Navier-Stokes equations in four days, sparking debate over mathematicians' future role
Malay Mail · 1m
OpenAI's math crisis sparks elite advisor panel
After bungling major mathematical announcements, OpenAI assembles nine elite mathematicians to help it communicate research responsibly.
The Verge · 3m
OpenAI's math breakthroughs spark advisory group debate
OpenAI forms an independent math advisory board after its AI solves over 100 open problems, but mathematicians worry about the pace.
TechCrunch · 1m · 7 views
Mathematicians Prove the Graph Sandwich Conjecture
A 22-year-old mathematical puzzle about connecting two types of random graphs has finally been solved, opening new ways to study complex networks.
Quanta Magazine · 3m
OpenAI's math breakthrough is unreadable
OpenAI's AI agents solved a legendary math problem, but mathematicians can't understand the proof.
Futurism · 1m
Jean-Pierre Serre, the mathematician who reshaped fields
From teenage calculus to the first Abel Prize, Serre helped give modern mathematics much of its current shape.
Maths History · 3m
AI answered Navier-Stokes. That is not the same as solving it
OpenAI cracked a Millennium Problem, and two philosophers say the win reveals what math was never about.
What's new · 3m
The Fields medalists have a mirror problem
Twenty five Fields medalists say AI is misaligned with mathematics. Lior Pachter asks what mathematics has been aligned to all along.
Bits of DNA · 4m
A mathematician cries over AI's math wins
Steven Strogatz on the week AI cracked problems his field spent decades loving, and what that costs the people who loved them.
WIRED · 2m
OpenAI just wants to win
A Millennium Prize solution turned into a fight over credit, trust, and who gets to scoop a mathematician.
The Verge · 3m
The Navier-Stokes problem may be solved
A Millennium Prize question about how fluids move has apparently been settled, and the Clay Institute is not rushing to confirm it.
Clay Mathematics Institute · 1m
OpenAI's math win turns into a theft fight
OpenAI said 10,000 agents cracked a Millennium Problem, then a mathematician said the work was his.
Futurism · 1m
Did OpenAI Steal Math Research From Its Own Users?
Mathematicians accuse OpenAI of using private ChatGPT conversations to scoop their academic breakthroughs.
The Verge · 1m · 11 views · 1 like
OpenAI's Math Breakthrough Ignites Data Drama
OpenAI claims to have solved the 90-year-old Navier-Stokes problem, but rival researchers suspect their private AI sessions fueled the proof.
The Verge · 1m
