OpenAI publishes 722 AI-generated math discoveries in major scientific milestone

OpenAI Group PBC has published 722 math papers that it generated using an unreleased artificial intelligence model. Some of the papers, which were posted to GitHub late Tuesday, prove long-running hypotheses. Others disapprove proposed explanations of mathematical phenomena or narrow down the possible answers to complex, yet-unsolved puzzles. Overall, OpenAI’s papers span about 20 mathematical subfields. One of the most notable discoveries relates to the Riemann hypothesis. It’s a more than 150-year-old paper about prime numbers, numbers that can only be divided by themselves or one. The Riemann hypothesis argues that prime numbers follow a pattern described by a mathematical object called the Riemann zeta function. Proving the conjecture is considered to be one of the most important challenges in mathematics.