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In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

OpenAI's AI model solved the unit distance problem posed by Paul Erdos in 1946 The AI found a counterexample disproving Erdos's conjecture on unit-distance pairs The solution shows unit-distance pairs ...

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The solution came following a very simple chatbot inquiry. OpenAI mathematicians fed the conjecture into a large language model (LLM) and asked it if Erdős was wrong. The researchers were not involved ...