Posted 12/16/2023, 12:31:30 PM
DeepMind AI Solves Long-Standing Math Problem, Potentially Achieving First-of-Its-Kind Scientific Breakthrough
- DeepMind claims its new AI tool, FunSearch, solved a famously difficult math problem that eluded human mathematicians
- This would be the first time AI generated a unique new scientific discovery not in its training data
- FunSearch was built on DeepMind's AlphaZero AI and uses an LLM called Codey trained on computer code
- Researchers don't fully understand why or how FunSearch came up with the novel solution
- If verified, this would be the first time an AI has made a genuine new scientific discovery on its own