The Edge of Mathematics - The Atlantic

Terence Tao, the legendary mathematician, explains the promise of generative AI.

Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem. The most extreme promises—AI-assisted resolutions to some of the hardest problems in mathematics—may well turn out to be empty hype. But a number of AI-written solutions, albeit to far less lauded problems, have checked out. These were answers to a number of the Erdős Problems—more than 1,000 mathematical questions set forth by the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős—written with generative-AI models including ChatGPT. Ope

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