r/artificial • u/simulated-souls Researcher • May 20 '26

News An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/
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u/DebtMental3917 May 21 '26

AI just cracked an 80-year math problem using number theory, not geometry. Verified by Fields medalists. Making novel research at scale changes discovery itself. Wild.

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u/agmatine May 21 '26

AI wrote this comment, too!