2+ hour, 50+ min ago  (536+ words) AI companies are hiring philosophy graduates to help them understand the nature of consciousness, whether it can be replicated and how their systems can be made better and more reliable AI think, therefore AI am Album / Alamy AI think, therefore…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago  (168+ words) New Scientist We are born with an understanding of numbers, which has probably given us a huge evolutionary advantage Marc Calleja / Alamy Babies are born with an innate sense of numbers, and now, the brain mechanisms behind this ability have…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (22+ words) A new retrospective of the artist beloved by mathematicians opens this week. Get up close to the art with our interactive story...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (335+ words) A seemingly simple set of rules kicks off a kind of mathematical magic trick, which has kept great minds busy since the 1930s. Columnist Jacob Aron explores the origins of the Collatz conjecture, why it is so addictive to mathematicians and…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (27+ words) New Scientist We and our partners use cookies and other technologies to collect user data #close Types of data being accessed...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (1034+ words) Mathematicians are stunned at the progress AI is making in solving advanced problems, leaving some questioning whether there will still be room for humans Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history "I think AI is going to come…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (430+ words) After an AI from Open AI found a trick to solve an 80-year-old conjecture from Paul Erd's, mathematicians have borrowed the same technique to solve another important problem Paul Erd's made many conjectures about numbers in his life Just a…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (540+ words) AI start-ups with hundreds of millions of dollars in funding are hiring mathematicians and building AI systems that they hope will not only solve mathematics, but also build more intelligent AI Open AI is one company testing how well its…...

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1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (540+ words) Artificial intelligence built by Open AI has cracked a decades-old conjecture by Paul Erd's, which mathematicians have hailed as a monumental moment for AI in mathematics The planar unit distance problem is about how many equal-sized lines you can draw…...