AI goes from garbage to cracking years-old conjecture in 88 hours

Mathematicians recount AI's rapid rise in research ability, with an OpenAI model solving a conjecture that took Spanish mathematicians years of work in about 88 hours—though they note it could not have done so without their ideas.

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