How a Claude model made a math breakthrough during its unsuccessful 54-hour attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis after a user repeatedly encouraged it (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

<a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-math-riemann-hypothesis-anthropic-openai-22f98a87?st=7mfzgc&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260816/i11.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260816/p11#a260816p11" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Ben Cohen / <a href="https://www.wsj.com/">Wall Street Journal</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-math-riemann-hypothesis-anthropic-openai-22f98a87?st=7mfzgc&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink">How a Claude model made a math breakthrough during its unsuccessful 54-hour attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis after a user repeatedly encouraged it</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The world's smartest AI models are now superhuman at math.&nbsp; They still respond to moral support and encouragement from mere humans.</p>