RetroLemmy
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
eicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

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

external-link
message-square
4
link
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • LLM@sopuli.xyz
66
external-link

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

eicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
message-square
4
link
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • LLM@sopuli.xyz
AI helped produce two proofs for the same cryptography problem
www.scientificamerican.com
external-link
An M.I.T. Ph.D. student and two University of California system cryptographers used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra in different ways, raising new questions about independent discovery and scientific credit
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • richmondez@lemdro.id
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    2 days 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.

    • hirihit640@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      23 hours ago

      Good point. The article does talk about how Ragavan failed to find the solution a couple of years earlier, but the AI was able to find Broadbent’s paper that "gave it on a silver platter.”

      Almost seems like the “smarter” people like Broadbent come up with the more novel revolutionary ideas, then others find ways of applying it to the rest of the world. And AI is able to do the latter as well.

  • [deleted]@piefed.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    2 days ago

    P A Y W A L L

  • Wren@lemmy.today
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    2 days ago

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

Technology@lemmy.world

technology@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@lemmy.world

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


  • @L4s@lemmy.world
  • @autotldr@lemmings.world
  • @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks
  • @wikibot@lemmy.world
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 3.79K users / day
  • 9.26K users / week
  • 15.4K users / month
  • 31.1K users / 6 months
  • 47 local subscribers
  • 86.9K subscribers
  • 20.8K Posts
  • 896K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • L3s@lemmy.world
  • enu@lemmy.world
  • Technopagan@lemmy.world
  • L4sBot@lemmy.worldB
  • L3s@hackingne.ws
  • BE: 0.19.20
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org