Math problems have long proven difficult for AI. Scientists have speculated that this could be because AI systems can’t recognize their own limitations, while others have surmised that the issue is that AI are focused on language and not on numbers, leading to a few stumbles along the way.
The Epoch AI experiment has demonstrated that AI is becoming more adept at some of the trickier math issues. In the test, GPT-5.2 Pro was presented with problems from various branches of math.
Joel Hass, a professor in the department of mathematics at University of California, Davis, contributed one of the problems solved by GPT-5.2 Pro. He told Epoch AI he was impressed with the way it cracked his topological challenge. “GPT-5.2 Pro solved the problem with correct reasoning. Notably it was able to recognize the specific geometry of a surface defined by a polynomial in the problem statement,” he said.
