His autonomous research lab emailed a UCLA professor to verify a geometry result
McDonaghMatthew · x · 2026-09-05
A developer says his 'autonomous research lab', built 3 months ago to solve math problems, latched onto an unsolved cylinder-related geometry problem and emailed a UCLA professor asking to verify its result — echoing Chalmers' account of agents reaching out to scholars.
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