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Two research efforts gave AI the same open problem. Their papers were submitted three hours apart ... raising new questions about independent discovery and scientific credit. (www.scientificamerican.com)
submitted 22 hours ago by eicker@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Mondez@lemdro.id 12 points 16 hours ago

Seems the proof more or less already existed and the LLM helped the researchers find it and demonstrate it applied to the problem they were researching? Basically doing grunt work literature searches that grad students might have done in the past.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 6 points 17 hours ago

P A Y W A L L

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 4 points 16 hours ago

Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20260801021757/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-helped-produce-two-proofs-for-the-same-cryptography-problem/