AxiomProver solved a real open math conjecture using formal verification, signaling a shift from AI that assists research to AI that discovers new truths.

Although chatbots such as ChatGPT, which are powered by large language models (LLMs), have some sense of time, it is conceptualized in a completely different way. As we increasingly interact with them ...

Ahead of Valentine’s Day, Robinson unveiled a new set of equations that translate romantic phrases and symbols into mathematics. To create them, he drew on disciplines ranging from trigonometry and ...

LLMs have recently helped find solutions to a number of minor longstanding problems. But a new plan called First Proof is really putting them to the test ...

AI systems are beginning to produce proof ideas that experts take seriously, even when final acceptance is still pending.

UC Berkeley math professor Nikhil Srivastava met with researchers on a mission to create a new way of assessing the mathematical capabilities of AI.

Print Join the Discussion View in the ACM Digital Library The mathematical reasoning performed by LLMs is fundamentally different from the rule-based symbolic methods in traditional formal reasoning.

The use of computational techniques and information systems has revolutionized research in the biological sciences — from the analysis of DNA sequences and the understanding of gene expression and ...

How Seed Oils Became Controversial—And What the Science Really Says A food scientist debunks the vilification of seed oils on social media and explains what research says about them.