“The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road." - Nelson Mandela
A 23-year-old just solved a math problem that defeated the world's greatest mathematicians for 60 years.
Not a PhD.
Not a research team.
A 23-year-old with ChatGPT 5.4 Pro and 1 hour and 20 minutes.
The problem was an Erdős conjecture.
For context: Paul Erdős was one of the most prolific mathematicians in history. He spent decades publishing unsolved problems that entire academic careers were built around attempting to crack.
This one sat untouched for 60 years.
The AI solved it in 80 minutes.
The part that should make every academic uncomfortable:
The solution used a formula everyone in mathematics already knew.
Not a hidden theorem. Not an obscure branch of number theory nobody had explored.
A known formula that nobody had thought to apply to this specific problem.
The AI had no ego blocking the obvious path.
No assumption that a known formula was too simple for a famous problem.
No 60 years of academic consensus telling it where not to look.
It just looked everywhere.
And found the answer in 80 minutes.
The conversation is public.
The proof is real.
A 23-year-old and an AI just did what 60 years of human mathematical genius could not.
Screenshot this.
The implications have not finished landing yet.
Follow @cyrilXBT for every moment AI crosses a line we thought was uncrossable.
These educated, professionally successful people who take part in corruption are basically beaten down by peer pressure. They see people around them stealing and getting away with it for years and start thinking "Why not me?"
Idiots. All of them.
So vele these gents steal public money so they can show off amabaddies on rotation & bottle service at the clurb. Babathengele amaBBL. Boma 15k etshwaleni. Uboshelwe lokho? What an embarrazz. Wathatha imali kahulumeni wathenga impundu, Chief? Your ‘SDIM, babe. What of? 🫠
An important reminder that black men and boys were the primary victim of apartheid on every metric. Most harassed, most incarcerated , most exploited, most killed.
Today the country creates policy as if black men and boys were privileged for being men, when in fact black men and BOYS bore the brunt of the system.
The prime lending rate is 6,8% above inflation!!!!
While SA suffers 42% real unemployment!
In my opinion the SARB monetary policy committee should not just be replaced. They should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
I see ‘Temu Terreblanche’ is at it again! 🙄
South Africa will never be truly prosperous unless each person has at least a modicum of dignified living, and the hope that life can get better. In Cape Town, we are trying to demonstrate just that.
We still have lots of problems, but we’re working, growing and steadily succeeding. 🇿🇦💪