That admission is what some in the field call recursive self-improvement (RSI), the point at which large language models ...

Many students appear to be completing assignments faster while learning less from them. This conclusion comes from one of the largest studies of how generative AI is changing student behavior and ...

Dylan Kane likes his math curriculum. But there’s one important piece missing, he says. The 7th grade math teacher in Leadville, Colo., uses a program that teaches math skills through real-world ...

While there have been many sober warnings about AI and recursive self-improvement, Arianna Huffington argues that it is a ...

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the ten questions right.

The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to everyone.

One of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies has implored the industry to pause development on AI, because the latest models could be reaching a tipping point where they become capable ...

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...

Recursion is building an industrialized engine for medicine. It operates among biotech stocks, selling access to its proprietary platform and pursuing joint development with major partners like Roche ...

A famed physicist’s scribbles reveal the answer to a quintessential dilemma: When dining out, is it better to stick with an old favorite, or try something new? Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard ...

A chatbot solution Recently, the company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, announced that its internal AI model had made progress on a closely related version of this problem, which suggests that Erdős may have ...

OpenAI claims its model solved a famous geometry problem that has eluded the world’s greatest mathematicians for 80 years — a breakthrough hailed as evidence of the bot’s creativity and “intuition.” ...