A few short years ago, asking AI to add two four-digit numbers together for a third-grade math assignment would have been a ...

Artificial intelligence systems may be good at generating text, recognizing images, and even solving basic math problems—but when it comes to advanced mathematical reasoning, they are hitting a wall.

You were smarter than AI at math only a few years ago. Yes, even you.

While this three-step process is the ideal process of applied math, reality is more complicated. Once I reach the second step where I want the solution of the math problem, very often, if not most of ...

Since you last thought about math, the people who think about math every day have been freaking out. Illustration: Emil Lendof/WSJ, Getty Images A month ago, when OpenAI announced that one of its ...

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify how University of Colorado researchers handle their data collection. A student digs into a math problem that references his favorite superhero, ...