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Imagine walking into your first economics class at the University College of London to discover that your professor was Italian male model Pietro Boselli. After saying a few Hail Mary’s, you’d tell ...

If OpenAI's new model can solve grade-school math, it could pave the way for more powerful systems. This story is from The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your ...