OpenAI general purpose model had a breakthrough on famous 80 year old Erdos problem. “This marks the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics”

Content of associated tweets: “Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids. An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better.