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eicker@eicker@lemmy.world

Two research efforts gave AI the same open problem. Their papers were submitted three hours apart ... raising new questions about independent discovery and scientific credit.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-helped-produce-two-proofs-for-the-same-cryptography-problem/
A silhouetted man gestures toward symbolic logic written in chalk across a blackboard.Scientific AmericanAI helped produce two proofs for the same cryptography problemAn M.I.T. Ph.D. student and two University of California system cryptographers used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra in different ways, raising new questions about independent discovery and scientific credit
hirihit640@hirihit640@sh.itjust.works

Replying to @⁨Mondez@lemdro.id⁩

Good point. The article does talk about how Ragavan failed to find the solution a couple of years earlier, but the AI was able to find Broadbent’s paper that "gave it on a silver platter.”

Almost seems like the “smarter” people like Broadbent come up with the more novel revolutionary ideas, then others find ways of applying it to the rest of the world. And AI is able to do the latter as well.

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