AI-era researchers ask whether math is obsolete
In just a few days, AI has turned mathematics upside-down. First, OpenAI disproved a conjecture of Paul Erdős, a renowned 20th century Hungarian mathematician, which no one had been able to crack since 1946. Soon after, Google DeepMind announced the solution to nine problems, including two that have gone unsolved for 50 years. These incidents are two examples of the impact AI is having on a field as specialized as mathematics.
