RT by @sama: It’s a really special time to be alive…some thoughts from training this model 🧵 (opens in new tab)

It’s a really special time to be alive…some thoughts from training this model 🧵 OpenAI (@OpenAI) Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids. An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better. This marks the first time AI has autonomously ...