CyrilXBT
CyrilXBT|Apr 28, 2026 12:16
A 23-year-old just solved a math problem that defeated the world's greatest mathematicians for 60 years. Not a PhD. Not a research team. A 23-year-old with ChatGPT 5.4 Pro and 1 hour and 20 minutes. The problem was an Erdős conjecture. For context: Paul Erdős was one of the most prolific mathematicians in history. He spent decades publishing unsolved problems that entire academic careers were built around attempting to crack. This one sat untouched for 60 years. The AI solved it in 80 minutes. The part that should make every academic uncomfortable: The solution used a formula everyone in mathematics already knew. Not a hidden theorem. Not an obscure branch of number theory nobody had explored. A known formula that nobody had thought to apply to this specific problem. The AI had no ego blocking the obvious path. No assumption that a known formula was too simple for a famous problem. No 60 years of academic consensus telling it where not to look. It just looked everywhere. And found the answer in 80 minutes. The conversation is public. The proof is real. A 23-year-old and an AI just did what 60 years of human mathematical genius could not. Screenshot this. The implications have not finished landing yet. Follow @cyrilXBT for every moment AI crosses a line we thought was uncrossable.(CyrilXBT)
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