- Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers shares his experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, which improved an exponential bound to a polynomial one in under an hour for open problems in number theory.
- The MIT researcher involved describes the key idea as “completely original,” suggesting this could redefine what constitutes significant mathematical contributions.
- Gowers’ takeaway is that the threshold for making meaningful contributions in mathematics now includes proving something that LLMs like ChatGPT 5.5 Pro can’t do without human oversight.
Originally published at the-decoder.com. Curated by AI Maestro.
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