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Sébastien Bubeck reacts to reported ChatGPT 5.6 solution of an open math problem
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Sébastien Bubeck calls the reported result amazing, noting that he spent a week trying to solve the problem back in 2012. In the quoted post, Steven Strogatz says a neurosurgery resident with no training in advanced math used ChatGPT 5.6 to solve a major open problem in numerical linear algebra. https://alextownsend.net/essays/SIAMNews_CrouzeixConjecture.pdf
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