OpenAI has said that its unreleased AI reasoning model solved a decades-old mathematical problem that had remained unsolved for nearly 80 years.
The model produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous geometry conjecture, OpenAI said in a blog post published on Wednesday, May 20.
At the centre of the purported breakthrough is the ‘Planar unit distance problem’ first posed by [who is he?] Paul Erdos. The problem asks a deceptively simple question: if points are placed on a flat two-dimensional plane, how many pairs of those points can be exactly one unit apart from each other?
For decades, mathematicians believed the most efficient arrangements resembled square-grids structures. Although researchers kept refining the theory, the prevailing assumption remained uncontested.
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