Will AI complete mathematics?

BBC Inside Science by BBC

Oct 8, 202626:28Religion & Spirituality

Tom Whipple investigates one of the biggest days in the 10,000 year history of maths. This week, overnight, OpenAI dropped hundreds of mathematical papers onto the internet. From the Margulis-Platonov conjecture to the G...

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