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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 09-Jun-2025 21:36:23 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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   @ColinTheMathmo adding five numbers together

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     Colin the Mathmo (colinthemathmo@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 09-Jun-2025 21:36:25 JST Colin the Mathmo

     Quoting Ken Ono:

     "I came up with a problem which experts in my field would recognize as an open question in number theory—a good Ph.D.-level problem,"

     He asked o4-mini to solve the question. Over the next 10 minutes, he watched in stunned silence as the bot unfurled a solution in real time, showing its reasoning process along the way.

     -- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-the-secret-meeting-where-mathematicians-struggled-to-outsmart-ai/

     And yet they don't tell us what that problem was.

     *So* frustrating.