AI makes discoveries in mathematics, computer science, physics, OpenAI says

OpenAI’s announcement is the latest in a series of claimed scientific breakthroughs credited to AI.OpenAI has announced that its AI models have made several scientific discoveries in mathematics, computer science and physics.The AI giant said on Monday that the three new discoveries concerned the fields of harmonic analysis, complexity theory and quantum field theory.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Jordan attacks Syria in response to Karak church attacklist 2 of 4Jordan strikes Syria after church attack, killing at least seven peoplelist 3 of 4Bolsonaro says police demand passports after Brazil election defeatlist 4 of 4Romania says Russia-run sabotage network set fire near weapons factoryend of listAmong the discoveries, AI models proved the local smoothing conjecture, one of the central propositions of harmonic analysis, in every spatial dimension for the first time, according to OpenAI.Researchers in harmonic analysis, a branch of mathematics that studies how complex signals and functions can be broken down into elementary waves, had previously only proved the theory in three dimensions.‘Historic development’Alex Iosevich, a professor of mathematics at the Universi...