{"id":245726,"date":"2026-10-21T02:10:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/ai-challenges-math-by-solving-the-unsolvable"},"modified":"2026-10-21T02:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:10:44","slug":"ai-challenges-math-by-solving-the-unsolvable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/ai-challenges-math-by-solving-the-unsolvable","title":{"rendered":"AI challenges math by solving the unsolvable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Announcements over recent months that artificial intelligence models have cracked previously unsolvable problems are shaking top-level mathematicians to the core, and they are now asking themselves: Where do we come in?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the avenues of research I had are now gone; we\u2019re facing a new day,\u201d Hugo Duminil-Copin, winner of the 2022 Fields Medal, one of the highest honors in mathematics, recently told his colleagues at the French Mathematical Society.<\/p>\n<p>Since April, AI firms have regularly been publishing solutions to previously unsolved mathematical problems as they seek to demonstrate the power of their latest models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcements over recent months that artificial intelligence models have cracked previously unsolvable problems are shaking top-level mathematicians to the core, and they are now asking themselves: Where do we come in? \u201cAll the avenues of research I had are now gone; we\u2019re facing a new day,\u201d Hugo Duminil-Copin, winner of the 2022 Fields Medal, one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}