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An amateur solved a 60-year-old Erdős problem using a single GPT-5.4 Pro prompt; Terence Tao says it's a "nice achievement" with unclear long-term significance (Joseph Howlett/Scientific American)

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Joseph Howlett / Scientific American : An amateur solved a 60-year-old Erdős problem using a single GPT-5.4 Pro prompt; Terence Tao says it's a “nice achievement” with unclear long-term significance — A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses

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An amateur solved a 60-year-old Erdős problem using a single GPT-5.4 Pro prompt; Terence Tao says it's a "nice achievement" with unclear long-term significance (Joseph Howlett/Scientific American)

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