As AI Closed In on ‘Unique Games’ Proof, Researchers Raced to Beat the Machines

MIT researchers rushed out an unfinished paper on a graph problem to avoid being overshadowed by an artificial intelligence company. OpenAI then published proofs for the unique games conjecture and hundreds of other mathematical results. Theoretical computer scientists now must navigate unedited machine proofs that disrupt standard research timelines.

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