An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math’s biggest unsolved problems
For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics, a long-running mystery about the distribution of prime numbers. There is currently a $1 million bounty for a working general proof of the hypothesis, which remains unclaimed. Contemporary AI models still can’t solve it either — but they can make a lot more progress than you might expect, a finding that’s likely to reopen long-standing questions about contemporary AI’s ability to discover new scientific and mathematical ideas.
- ▪For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics, a long-running mystery about the distribution of prime numbers.
- ▪There is currently a $1 million bounty for a working general proof of the hypothesis, which remains unclaimed.
- ▪Contemporary AI models still can’t solve it either — but they can make a lot more progress than you might expect, a finding that’s likely to reopen long-standing questions about contemporary AI’s ability to discover new scientific and mathe
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For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics, a long-running mystery about the distribution of prime numbers. There is currently a $1 million bounty for a working general proof of the hypothesis, which remains unclaimed. Contemporary AI models still can’t solve it either — but they can make a lot more progress than you might expect, a finding that’s likely to reopen long-standing questions about contemporary AI’s ability to discover new scientific and mathematical ideas. On Monday, Anthropic announced that an as-yet-unreleased model had made significant progress on the Riemann hypothesis, significantly increasing the lower bound of solutions for which the hypothesis holds true.
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