A.I.’s First Big Math Breakthrough Is Not What It Seems

Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...
RealClearMarkets

Social Security's Problem Isn't Politics, It's Arithmetic

The latest Social Security Trustees Report contains a warning that neither political party should ignore. If Congress fails to act, Social Security's retirement trust fund is projected to become ...
Scientific American

AI scores a ‘C–’ on its hardest math test yet

The best-yet test of artificial intelligence’s mathematical mettle has released its first official round of results. The verdict is that large language models (LLMs) are emerging as useful—albeit ...
IEEE

Geometry Arithmetic Problem Recommendation Based on Scene-Enhanced BERT

Abstract: Intelligent recommendation plays an important role in the field of intelligent education, among which arithmetic problem recommendation is an important research field. Geometry arithmetic ...
Science News

AI cracked an Erdős math problem. Now experts want guardrails

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...
The New York Times

They Spent Years on a Math Problem. Then They Were Scooped by A.I.

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...
NPR

Bumblebees have tiny brains but they can solve problems like chimps and elephants

For new discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines, follow NPR's ShortWave podcast . Over a century ago, the German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler conducted what became a ...