One would imagine that an AI capable of solving the hardest Olympiad problems would naturally produce novel scientific breakthroughs, yet this has not been the case.

Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform.

Problem solving is the mental process of analyzing a situation, learning what options are available, and then choosing the alternative that will result in the desired outcome or some other selected ...

Machine learning is the ability of a machine to improve its performance based on previous results. Machine learning methods enable computers to learn without being explicitly programmed and have ...

It’s becoming somewhat of a theme that machine-generated content – whether it’s code, text or graphics – keeps pushing people ...

Sarah D. Sparks is a reporter and data journalist for Education Week who covers the teaching profession and pedagogy for Education Week. She has covered education research and the science of learning ...