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Even experts are surprised by AI’s latest ‘vibe-mathing’ advance (www.scientificamerican.com)
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This is allegedly it: https://chatgpt.com/share/69dd1c83-b164-8385-bf2e-8533e9baba9c

Here's a github tracking AI contributions to Erdos problems: https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems/wiki/AI-contributions-to-Erd%C5%91s-problems

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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My grandpa said using a calculator would spoil my math abilities.

Actually it spoiled my arithmetic tricks. Instead I had more time to learn things like vector calculus.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, but your calculator does math the same way every time, and doesn't hallucinate wrong answers seemingly at random.