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Smithsonian Magazine
smithsonianmag.com > smart-news > ai-may-have-solved-a-longstanding-math-problem-with-a-million-dollar-prize-it-ignited-a-controversy-over-who-gets-credit-180989472

A.I. May Have Solved a Longstanding Math Problem With a Million-Dollar Prize. It Ignited a Controversy Over Who Gets Credit

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (705+ words) Margherita Bassi | Daily Correspondent The Navier-Stokes problem, a famous theoretical math problem regarding the movement of fluids, has stumped mathematicians for almost 200 years. At the turn of the 21st century, the Clay Mathematics Institute decided that it would award $1 million to…...

Smithsonian Magazine
smithsonianmag.com > smart-news > ai-disproves-a-decades-old-mathematical-idea-the-biggest-conjecture-that-the-tech-has-played-a-role-in-yet-180989189

A.I. Disproves a Decades-Old Mathematical Idea, the 'Biggest Conjecture' That the Tech Has Played a Role in Yet

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (550+ words) Eli Stark-Elster | AAAS Mass Media Fellow While more than 60 million people in the United States watched the FIFA World Cup final on July 19, an artificial intelligence model was hard at work solving—or technically, disproving—a decades-old math problem. Mathematician…...

Smithsonian Magazine
smithsonianmag.com > smart-news > mathematicians-puzzled-over-a-famous-problem-for-80-years-now-theyve-used-ai-to-identify-a-clever-solution-180988889

Mathematicians Puzzled Over a Famous Problem for 80 Years. Now, They've Used A.I. to Identify a Clever Solution

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (737+ words) Ellen Wexler | Writer and Special Projects Editor 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…...

Smithsonian Magazine
smithsonianmag.com > smart-news > scientists-used-ai-to-redesign-a-microbes-machinery-to-function-without-a-key-ingredient-of-life-180988802

Scientists Used A.I. to Redesign a Microbe's Machinery to Function Without a Key Ingredient of Life

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (502+ words) Sara Hashemi | Daily Correspondent Almost all life on Earth builds its proteins from the same set of 20 building blocks, called amino acids. Some organisms have an extra one or two, but none have fewer. Now, researchers have used artificial intelligence…...

Smithsonian Magazine
smithsonianmag.com > smart-news > humans-may-have-used-these-mysterious-symbols-to-encode-information-tens-of-thousands-of-years-before-the-first-writing-systems-180988250

Humans May Have Used These Mysterious Symbols to Encode Information Tens of Thousands of Years Before the First Writing Systems

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (487+ words) More from Smithsonian magazine Sarah Kuta - Daily Correspondent Roughly 40,000 years ago, humans living in present-day Europe carved a variety of geometric signs into pendants, tools and figurines. Now, according to a new paper in the journal PNAS, researchers claim the…...