AI Solves Millennium Math Problem Decades Ahead of Forecasts
According to an AI Impacts survey, as of December 2024 typical AI researchers expected a Millennium Prize problem to be solved by AI around 2054. OpenAI has now solved one, roughly three decades ahead of forecasts.
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