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OpenAI's announcement that it produced solutions to 10 long-standing mathematics problems, some of which had resisted resolution for decades, is drawing serious attention from inside the discipline.
James Maynard, a University of Oxford professor who holds the Fields Medal, told The Verge the development sent him into a sustained period of "soul searching" about the future of his field.
The ten problems in focus OpenAI's disclosure covers 10 distinct problems, not a single result. Some had confounded academics for decades, which makes the scope of the announcement unusual by the field's own standards.
The technology works the way generative AI does when producing text or images, or when proposing ideas in science and medicine: it learns patterns and connections from large volumes of existing material, then uses those patterns to generate new outputs.
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