Mathematicians cracked five open problems using an ordinary chat box.
Meta published six maths papers on Friday, co-written by mathematicians and its Muse Spark models. Five answer questions that had stayed open, one of them since 2015. The mathematicians used the ordinary meta.ai chat window, not a custom research system.
Why it mattersThe tool that helped here is the same chat box anyone can open. Research help no longer depends on a lab building special software around a model.
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