Did AI Just “Solve” Math? (Let’s Take a Closer Look) | AI Reality Check

2026-05-28 · 32 min · 13 entities

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Link in episode "Did AI Just “Solve” Math? (Let’s Take a Closer Look) | AI Reality Check": https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture
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Link in episode "Did AI Just “Solve” Math? (Let’s Take a Closer Look) | AI Reality Check": https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085-19b0-4534-9c90-465b8e29ad73/unit-distance-remarks.pdf

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Link in episode "Did AI Just “Solve” Math? (Let’s Take a Closer Look) | AI Reality Check": https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085-19b0-4534-9c90-465b8e29ad73/unit-distance-remarks.pdf
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Link in episode "Did AI Just “Solve” Math? (Let’s Take a Closer Look) | AI Reality Check": https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085-19b0-4534-9c90-465b8e29ad73/unit-distance-remarks.pdf

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Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News. Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia (0:00) Did AI just “solve” math? (2:38) What OpenAI did (6:30) Question #1 - Is this result that important? (7:34) Question #2 - Does this mean LLMs are now smarter than human mathematicians? (17:50) Question #3 - Does this mean all equally hard challenges will now be conquered by AI? (23:27) Question #4 - What is the future of math? (28:27) Concluding thoughts Links: Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at www.calnewport.com/slow https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br4l9YjCyRU https://x.com/PeterDiamandis/status/2058956956077871275 https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085-19b0-4534-9c90-465b8e29ad73/unit-distance-remarks.pdf Thanks to Jesse Miller for production and mastering and Nate Mechler for research and newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices