AI is improving its math chops

Complex math hasn't always been AI's strongest suit, but the technology showcased its progress at one of the world's premiere competitions, said in The New York Times . A Google Deep-Mind system became the first machine to achieve "gold medal" status at the annual International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) last month. OpenAI said that its AI "achieved a similar score on this year's questions, though it did not officially enter the competition." The results had experts buzzing. Last year, Google's AI took home a silver medal, but it required several days to complete the test and "could only answer questions after human experts translated them into computer programming language." This time, Google's chatbot, Gemini Deep Think, "read and responded to questions in English" and used techniqu