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A breakthrough paper is published about using artificial intelligence to do mathematics - we discuss it with DeepMind's Alex Davies and Professor Marcus du Sautoy.
DeepMind - https://deepmind.com
DeepMind blog on this topic - https://deepmind.com/blog/article/exploring-the-beauty-of-pure-mathematics-in-novel-ways
Nature article on the topic - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03593-1
Article from The Conversation by Geordie Williamson, who worked on the project - https://theconversation.com/mathematical-discoveries-take-intuition-and-creativity-and-now-a-little-help-from-ai-172900
Marcus du Sautoy - https://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk
The Creativity Code - book on Amazon - https://amzn.to/3Dmxak2
Collaborator Geordie Williamson - https://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/geordie/
Collaborator Marc Lackenby - http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/lackenby/
Collaborator Andras Juhasz - https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/people/andras.juhasz
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