Chinese doctor stuns maths world by cracking decades-old problem using ChatGPT

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Chinese neurosurgeon Jin Shanmu, based in Beijing, solved a longstanding mathematical problem using OpenAI's ChatGPT, highlighting significant AI application in advanced problem-solving. The achievement attracted attention in both medicine and mathematics communities.

When Beijing-based neurosurgeon Jin Shanmu pulled up a chair at his computer, he was not looking to make mathematical history. He was simply trying to crack a problem related to brain ultrasounds. Instead, the self-taught maths enthusiast, with help from OpenAI’s latest flagship artificial intelligence (AI) model, solved a two-decade-old mathematical puzzle that had frustrated experts around the world since 2004. Jin, a postdoctoral researcher and resident at the Peking Union Medical College...