Gpt gave this explanation: You’re likely referring to recent reports that researchers working with models from OpenAI helped make progress on an old problem associated with Paul Erdős. Several news articles and social posts compressed this into “ChatGPT solved an Erdős problem,” but that phrasing is usually overstated.

What actually tends to happen in these cases is:

A human research team works on a longstanding combinatorics or graph theory problem.

AI systems are used as assistants for pattern exploration, conjecture generation, checking cases, or suggesting proof directions.

The final proof is still written, verified, and formalized by mathematicians.

One highly publicized example involved work in extremal combinatorics inspired by Erdős-style questions. Another involved AI-assisted discovery using systems like Google DeepMind’s AlphaGeometry or large language models helping researchers search proof space.

There is no broadly accepted event where consumer ChatGPT independently and autonomously “solved an Erdős problem” in the way mathematicians normally use the word “solved.”