Mathematicians are likely feeling anxiety after OpenAI released 722 research papers with AI-created solutions to a range of problems across math subjects. AI's success solving ultra-difficult math problems is due to several factors, including that solutions can often be verified, much like software code, and there's a lot of overlap between mathematics and the work that AI researchers do. With enough computing resources, the AI can do the heavy-duty number crunching that would take humans years, and it doesn't give up. One mathematician advising OpenAI on how to publicly disclose its math breakthroughs referred to these abilities as brute force and stamina.
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