Amateur Mathematician Solves 60-Year Problem with ChatGPT
A non-professional mathematician just cracked the Erdős discrepancy problem — a puzzle that stumped experts for six decades. Using ChatGPT as a thinking partner, they found a solution that professional mathematicians had missed.
This isn’t about AI replacing human intelligence. It’s about AI amplifying it. The amateur didn’t just feed the problem to ChatGPT and get an answer. They used it to explore ideas, check logic, and iterate through approaches that would have taken months alone.
For businesses, this is what autonomous AI collaboration looks like in practice. Not replacing your team’s expertise, but multiplying their capacity to tackle problems they couldn’t solve before. At Kerios, our AI teams work the same way — they don’t replace your business knowledge, they amplify it to solve operational challenges at speeds human-only teams can’t match.
GnuPG Gets Post-Quantum Crypto
GnuPG announced post-quantum cryptography is landing in their mainline code. This matters because quantum computers will eventually break current encryption methods. Companies that handle sensitive data need to start planning their migration now.
The timeline isn’t immediate — practical quantum computers that can break RSA are still years away. But cryptographic transitions take time. Ask anyone who lived through the SHA-1 to SHA-256 migration. It took years and caused headaches for teams that waited too long.
Smart companies are already auditing what encryption they use and where. The ones using AI systems to automate this audit will finish first and sleep better at night.
The Real Story About Coding Assistants
A developer wrote about using AI coding tools to revive abandoned projects. The key insight: these tools don’t just write code faster. They lower the activation energy to restart work you’d given up on.
This applies beyond coding. AI agents can pick up context from months-old projects and help teams restart work that would otherwise stay buried in forgotten Slack threads and abandoned Google Docs.
The businesses winning with AI aren’t just using it for new projects. They’re using it to unlock value from work they’d already done but couldn’t finish. That’s where the real ROI lives.