A chatbot’s result for the 80-year-old “unit distance” conjecture is the first AI proof that would likely be published in ...
On May 20, OpenAI said an internal reasoning model had produced a counterexample to Paul Erdős’s 1946 unit distance ...
They made some progress, re-proving the conjecture in two dimensions using different techniques—ones they hoped would be applicable to the three-dimensional case. But then they hit a wall. “At some ...