Mathematicians say Google's AI tools are supercharging their research

Mathematicians say Google's AI tools are supercharging their research AI tools developed by Google DeepMind are surprisingly effective at assisting mathematical research and could usher in a wave of AI-powered mathematical discovery at a previously unseen scale, say mathematicians who have tested the technology. In May, Google announced an AI system called AlphaEvolve that could find new algorithms and mathematical formulae. The system works by exploring many possible solutions, produced by Google's AI chatbot Gemini. Crucially, though, these are fed to a separate AI evaluator that can filter out the nonsensical solutions that a chatbot inevitably generates . At the time, Google researchers tested AlphaEvolve on more than 50 open mathematical problems and found that, in three-quarters of cases, the system could rediscover the best-known solutions found by humans.