April 24, 2026 4 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm An amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problem—by asking AI A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. What he does have is a ChatGPT Pro subscription, which gives him access to the latest large language models from OpenAI. Artificial intelligence has recently made headlines for solving a number of “Erdős problems,” conjectures left behind by the prolific mathematician Paul Erdős. But experts have warned that these problems are an imperfect benchmark of artificial intelligence’s mathematical prowess. They range dramatically in both significance and difficulty, and many AI solutions have turned out to be less original than they appeared.…