AI scientists make ‘exciting’ discovery using chatbots to solve maths problems

Breakthrough suggests technology behind ChatGPT and Bard can generate information that goes beyond human knowledge

Artificial intelligence researchers claim to have made the world’s first scientific discovery using a large language model, a breakthrough that suggests the technology behind ChatGPT and similar programs can generate information that goes beyond human knowledge.

The finding emerged from Google DeepMind, where scientists are investigating whether large language models, which underpin modern chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, can do more than …

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