The Caledonian-Record

Bumblebees able to problem solve despite having tiny brains

Bumblebees were able to complete several new object-manipulation tasks in a series of groundbreaking experiments.

Bumblebees can spontaneously solve problems, study finds

In 2024, Olli Loukola of the Finland co-authored a study demonstrating that bumblebees could cooperate to solve complex ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Mathematicians Puzzled Over a Famous Problem for 80 Years. Now, They’ve Used A.I. to Identify a Clever Solution

In 1946, the mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit distance problem—and suggested a winning strategy. An A.I. model has now ...

An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in ...
Communications of the ACM

I Spent a Year Asking AI to Solve Math’s Hardest Problem. Here’s What Happened

P vs. NP asks: are these two classes actually the same? If P = NP, then every “hard” problem is secretly fast to solve; we ...