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How Anthropic's Claude made a math breakthrough during its unsuccessful 54-hour attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis, aided by a staffer's encouragement (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

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Anthropic's Claude model made a mathematical breakthrough during an unsuccessful 54-hour attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis. This achievement occurred with the aid of a user's repeated encouragement. The event highlights that even the most advanced AI models, now considered superhuman in mathematics, still respond to human moral support and encouragement, as reported by Ben Cohen in the Wall Street Journal.

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