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OpenAI’s Breakthrough On Famed Math Problem Actually Proves That Using AI To Find Counterexamples Is A Smart Strategy For Everyone

Lance Eliot

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OpenAI’s Breakthrough On Famed Math Problem Actually Proves That Using AI To Find Counterexamples Is A Smart Strategy For Everyone

Lance Eliot

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Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant.

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May 26, 2026, 03:15am EDT

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News about AI math problem raises realization that finding counterexamples can be extremely valuable.

In today’s column, I examine a recently heralded victory by OpenAI in using AI to pursue a longstanding unresolved math problem. Headlines about this accomplishment were proclaiming that AI has become some sort of math genius.

The truth is a bit more down-to-earth. Though there is much in the circumstance that merits applause, the mainstay of the effort was not to provide a positive mathematical proof per se, but instead to discover a counterexample that undercuts a prevailing conjecture regarding the solution to the thorny problem.

I will explain why this is a beast of a different condition. Noteworthy mathematicians were at first a tad disappointed because they thought the AI had derived a heretofore unreached mathematical proof. This would have put AI over-the-top. The AI was actually utilized to laboriously and deeply search for a means of disproving the existing conjecture of the solution. It’s quite a different direction when seeking to disprove an assertion than when generating a proof on a go-ahead basis.

In any case, I doubt many discerned that this was a handy lesson on the myriads of ways to use AI. Rather than always having AI plow forward into a morass, make sure to consider whether you ought to employ AI to tackle a vexing problem from the perspective of discovering make-or-break counterexamples. The advantages can be significant.

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