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Donald Knuth describes his shock and joy upon learning that Claude successfully solved an open combinatorial problem he had been researching for a future volume of The Art of Computer Programming. (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

There's no actual "AI" involved here. Mathematicians have been using computational methods since they invented the computer. These results are just a natural continuation of decades of work.

But no. There's no Johnny 5 inside this program.

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

Well just like a MATLAB plotting program "draws" lines and curves and stuff, Claude is a programs that puts together various reasonings based on the mathematician's input.

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