Artificial intelligence systems may be good at generating text, recognizing images, and even solving basic math problems—but when it comes to advanced mathematical reasoning, they are hitting a wall.

As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. Focusing on the latter, ...

Artificial intelligence has been inching toward genuine mathematical discovery for years, but a claim from OpenAI in early ...

Jin Shanmu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, ...

At the heart of this breakthrough lies AlphaProof, a sophisticated formal reasoning AI model developed by the brilliant minds at Google DeepMind. This innovative system has demonstrated an ...

OpenAI Astra achieved a major breakthrough by solving 10 complex theoretical math problems, utilizing sub-agents for ...

From writing essays to coding, there’s seemingly nothing modern AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot cannot accomplish. But even though they seem limitless on the surface, they’re certainly ...

When you think back on elementary school math, do you have fond memories of the countless worksheets you completed on adding fractions or solving division problems? Probably not. Researchers and ...

Mathematicians excel at handling complexity and uncertainty. Mathematical reasoning strategies aren't just useful for dilemmas involving numbers. We can apply math mindsets to improve our approach to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the economics of AI. What looks like intelligence in AI models may just be memorization. A closer look at benchmarks ...