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A new benchmark pitting AI against previously unseen maths problems shows systems still fall short of top human expertise.

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One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

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