AI cracks 80-year-old mathematics challenge — researchers are astonished

Paul Erdős, who published more than 1,500 papers during his lifetime, also left a legacy of more than 1,000 open research questions, some of which are now being solved with AI. Credit: George Csicsery An 80-year-old challenge in geometry has been cracked by mathematicians working for the tech firm Open AI using a single prompt from an AI chatbot. …