A new benchmark pitting AI against previously unseen maths problems shows systems still fall short of top human expertise.

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“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

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“How did you get that answer?” That’s what I used to ask my students as I walked around to check their math work. More often than not, my question was met with a shrug, an “I guessed,” or a vague ...

Here’s a contrarian truth that cuts through much of today’s AI hype: When your AI assistant calculates revenue, bonuses, VAT or financial summaries, it isn’t doing math. It’s telling a convincing ...

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Researchers at Stanford and Caltech have found some critical reasoning failures in advanced AI models. LLMs are great at recognizing patterns, but they have trouble with basic logic, social reasoning, ...