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What’s the secret to prompting an AI to solve math problems that have left humans stumped? Tell it to believe in itself ...

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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 ...

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