The first examples of new discoveries in mathematics made by a general-purpose AI

[John Clark]

New discoveries have been made by computers in science and mathematics before, but they have all been from narrow specialized programs such as AlphaFold and AlphaTensor, but Google's new AlphaEvolve can work on any problem where there is an easy and objective way to check how well it's doing.  So it won't help much in improving an AI's creative writing skill or in its ability to philosophize, but it will help a lot in improving its mathematical ability, in writing computer code that is fast and resource stingy, and in managing finite resources for maximum output. I was not the only one who was amazed by this new development, this is what the journal Nature had to say about AlphaEvolve yesterday:

DeepMind unveils ‘spectacular’ general-purpose science AI

You might also find the following unrelated recent article in Nature to be of some interest:

Mice grow bigger brains when given this stretch of human DNA

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[John Clark]

Brain tissues, assemble! Inside the push to build better brain models

[Cosmin Visan]

General purpose: you can both talk non-sense with it and you can also have sex with it. Finally, all those decades of virginity pays off!