‘Is it this? Is it that? Why does it even exist? Do we really have to?’ and ‘Ya’ll are doing it wrong!’- the comment section of a Reddit post with a unique math problem looked something like this, ...

What if the next new mathematical discovery didn’t come from a human mind, but from an AI? Imagine a machine not just crunching numbers but proposing original solutions to problems that have baffled ...

They had to throw away most of what it produced but there was gold among the garbage. Google DeepMind has used a large language model to crack a famous unsolved problem in pure mathematics. In a paper ...