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An AI Model Disproved an 80-Year-Old Math Conjecture, and Mathematicians Are Still Arguing About Why It Matters
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An AI Model Disproved an 80-Year-Old Math Conjecture, and Mathematicians Are Still Arguing About Why It Matters

In May, OpenAI said one of its internal reasoning models had disproved a conjecture the mathematician Paul Erdős posed in 1946, a problem that had resisted every attempt at a solution for eight decades.

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