A 23-year-old with no advanced math training just solved a problem that stumped the world's top mathematicians for 60 years.
His only tool: a ChatGPT Pro subscription and a free afternoon.
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The implication: you don't need a PhD to push the edge of human knowledge anymore.
Experts still had to clean up and verify the output. AI found the angle. Humans confirmed the work.
That's the job description now.
The AI didn't follow the standard playbook.
It used a formula well-known in other areas of math — but nobody had ever thought to apply it to this kind of problem.
UCLA's Terence Tao said researchers had been making "a slight wrong turn at move one" for decades.
A survey of 3,750 workers across 14 countries found 80% of enterprise workers are avoiding or rejecting their company's AI tools.
Only 9% of workers trust AI for complex decisions vs 61% of executives. A third of the workforce has never used AI at all, not because they refused, because nobody trained them.
Companies spending $54M on average for AI transformation are losing 40% to adoption failures.
Source: Fortune / WalkMe
Anthropic launched Claude Design today. You describe what you need, it builds slides, prototypes, and one-pagers.
The concept: traditional design tools assume you know what good design looks like. Conversational design flips that. You describe the outcome, the AI handles layout, hierarchy, and typography. Your job shifts from pixel-pushing to describing what the audience needs.
Exports to PDF, PPTX, or Canva. Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise plans.
Anthropic built an AI that can find security flaws in software faster than human experts. It found thousands of unknown vulnerabilities across every major operating system and browser.
They refused to release it publicly. Instead, 40 organizations got access to fix their own systems first. The Treasury Secretary held a meeting with bank CEOs about it.
Full story in today's newsletter: https://www.beginnersinai.com/p/dangerous-anthropic-ai-mythos-to-beef-up-us-agency-systems
GitHub - beginnersinai/the-44-percent-rule: The 44% Rule: Find 44% more AI use cases in your business. A Claude Code plugin based on Harvard/INSEAD research (515 startups: businesses shown how others use AI find 44% more use cases and 1.9x higher revenue).
The 44% Rule: Find 44% more AI use cases in your business. A Claude Code plugin based on Harvard/INSEAD research (515 startups: businesses shown how others use AI find 44% more use cases and 1.9x h...
I made a free Claude Desktop plugin that audits your business for AI opportunities you're missing and tells you where they are.
It's based on a Harvard/INSEAD study of 515 startups that came out last week. The ones using AI across 5+ functions made 1.9x more revenue.👇