OpenAI makes breakthrough on 80-year-old maths problem
Key takeaways
- If you take a sheet of paper and add some dots, how many pairs can be the same distance apart?
- Prefer the Guardian on Google Open AI has claimed a further advance in AI reasoning after its technology successfully tackled an 80-year-old maths problem.
- The company behind ChatGPT said it had made a breakthrough with a challenge first posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős in 1946: the planar unit distance problem.
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If you take a sheet of paper and add some dots, how many pairs can be the same distance apart? Illustration: Open AIView image in fullscreen If you take a sheet of paper and add some dots, how many pairs can be the same distance apart? Illustration: Open AIOpen AIOpen AI makes breakthrough on 80-year-old maths problem Company says work on Paul Erdős planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoning
Prefer the Guardian on Google Open AI has claimed a further advance in AI reasoning after its technology successfully tackled an 80-year-old maths problem.
The company behind ChatGPT said it had made a breakthrough with a challenge first posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős in 1946: the planar unit distance problem.