The math problem that has troubled humanity for 80 years has been solved by AI! Altman: My feelings are complicated.
An AI has achieved something that human mathematicians failed to do for nearly 80 years.
On May 21, OpenAI officially announced that an internal general reasoning model had independently overturned the “Planar Unit Distance Conjecture” (Erdős Unit Distance Problem)—a geometric challenge proposed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős in 1946,