A Mathematician Pushes Back as AI Claims Its Third Proof Breakthrough in 72 Hours
Claude Fable reportedly disproved an 85-year-old conjecture, the third AI math result in three days — and at least one working mathematician is asking why the field is celebrating its own obsolescence.
The pace of AI-assisted mathematical results has crossed into territory that makes practitioners uneasy. @Aizcalibur reported that Claude Fable disproved an 85-year-old mathematical conjecture, describing it as the third AI math breakthrough in 72 hours. Whatever the eventual verification status of these results — and disproofs of long-standing conjectures demand extraordinary scrutiny — the clustering is what registers as a phase change.
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