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Public opinion continues to hate him the same

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In 2024, a renewed Mark Zuckerberg surprised his own and strangers with A new style when dressing . Facebook’s founding millionaire left behind its boring uniforms Diaries formed by a Texan and Gray T -shirt, and bet on a more “bad” style with gold chains to the neck, shirts with Roman dates and ruffled hair. Nevertheless, A study Pew Research Center has revealed that all Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts to update his appearance and approach the younger audience have been in vain. The public continues to have a negative perception of him, even much more than other millionaires such as Elon Musk that, due toHis new political facet with Trumpthey are more likely to generate negative opinions. The “unpopularity” of the millionaires. According to a survey conducted to 5,086 American adults After Donald Trump’s investiture67% of the participants claimed to have a negative opinion about Zuckerberg, exceeding 57% who stated to have an unfavorable opinion about Elon Musk having become The right hand of the president. Although it may seem incredible, 6% of respondents had never heard of Mark Zuckerberg, and 3% did not know who Elon Musk was, although after the stir His role in Doge, this percentage is likely to be lower at the moment. Both millionaires have been the subject of controversy since Trump won the elections in November 2024. Musk went from be the main donor From Trump to the executing arm of his policies of Administration personnel cutwhile Zuckerberg took a 180º turn in the Business culture target towards a “more masculine energy“ Partisan differences. Pew Research data suggests that opinions on these technological leaders vary according to the political affiliation of respondents. In this sense, it is evident that the political positioning of Elon Musk conditions the opinion of him based on his political ideology. Thus, 85% of Democratic Democrats or supporters have a negative vision of Elon Musk, while 73% of Republican Republicans see it favorably. However, the rejection of the public figure of Mark Zuckerberg is more homogeneous on both sides of the political arch. The data show that 76% of the surveyed supporters of the Democrats, and 60% of the Republicans, express an unfavorable opinion about the Facebook founder. The CEO as a company’s referent. Despite Zuckerberg’s attempts for improving your public imageincluding a radical change of appearance and a growing interest in fashion, these efforts do not seem to have had a positive impact on public opinion, which still does not feel attracted to the Meta CEO. One of the reasons for that rejection of what is popularly known as “Zuckissance“(Combination of Renaissance and Zuckerberg) can be the imposture of this new” updated “style of the Meta CEO so that it personalizes what the company wants to convey. Something that people have received as the nth Marketing campaign of goal to renew their flow of users. A redesigned CEO. Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal with Elon Musk and one of Silicon Valley’s most influential voices, is also one of Mark Zuckerberg’s main mentors. In one Postados chainSent in January 2020, Thiel and the Meta team outlined How the CEO should be shown of a company as a goal to attract new generations to the same networks that use their grandparents. “There is a distinction between the company and I. While our company has a special role in the life of this generation, this is likely to be particularly important for the way I present myself, because I am the best known person of my generation” , Zuckerberg wrote in those emails. Far from being spontaneous or fruit of the personality of Mark Zuckerberg, the change of style that has been experienced is a movement calculated from the Meta Board of Directors, and this has been perceived by public opinion. In Xataka | Mark Zuckerberg would take 550 years to spend all his fortune spending a million dollars a month Image | Goal, dvidshub (Trevor Cokley)

How fantastic cinema has invaded the main nominations of the 2025 Oscar

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For a few years, fantastic cinema is living a kind of face washing thanks to prestigious successes and labels such as “high terror“. The cotton test is always in the Oscars: as a maximum representation of Hollywood’s respectability and the show industry, when gender movies appear in the main categories, we live a new era of acceptance of the fantastic. Like this year. The circle of life. It is not a new phenomenon, but it has not always existed either. For decades all genres outside the drama, comedy and its variants (musical, western) were none by the Oscars. Until the international success of ‘arrivedStar Wars‘At the end of the seventies, and the technical categories of effects began to acquire relevance. The next spicy of the horror genre in the Oscars arrived in the nineties, with films without traces of series B in its DNA as ‘the silence of the lambs’ or ‘misery’. Since then, and by streaks, there have always been periodic claims of the fantastic in the Oscars (‘Let me out’, ‘The form of water’, ‘The Lord of the Rings‘), And this year he plays again. A significant precedent. Although last year there was almost almost the presence of fantastic cinema among the Nominated for Best Film (‘Barbie‘, of course, but above all’Poor creatures‘-Two films that never had the slightest opportunity-), the most interesting nominations in this regard took place in 2023. Not only was it nominated’Avatar: The sense of water‘, but ‘All at once everywhere‘He won seven awards, including the best film. A pure fantastic movie that also put on the table a producer who had been talking for years, A24. The legacy of A24. The great winner of the 2023 Oscar were neither her directors, the Daniels, nor her squad of actors (all awarded), but As we said at the timeproducer A24. Although it is not a specialized producer, it is responsible, distributing and producing the cinema of directors such as Robert Eggers (‘La Bruja’, ‘El Faro’) or Ari Aster (‘Hereditary’, ‘Midsommar’) that the fantastic cinema live A new era of respectability. Which includes, as a consequence, a renewed presence in the Oscars. 2025, Fantastic Oscars. This year we have several gender films among the nominees. On the one hand, the inevitable blockbuster, the equivalent of the ‘avatar’ of 2023: ‘Dune: Part two‘. On the other, ‘WICKED‘, which is a musical and therefore is more in the Hollywood tradition than in the rupture of norms, but let’s not forget that it is a prequel to’ The Wizard of Oz ‘, a classic absolute of the genre. Yeah ‘Emilia Pérez“It is fantastic or not would be something to sit down to discuss it (or better not), but it is clear that the radical point puts it. ‘The substance‘, a film that drinks from the troma and series B, of the Body Horror and the Gore, of Cronenberg and the latex feasts of the eighties. A true surprise whose only presence in nominations is already an indisputable award. And this year there are possibilities? First of all, it should be said that it was not planned that ‘everything at once everywhere’ razed in 2023, so there are always possibilities. But in principle, no: this year the thing is between ‘The Brutalist‘,’ Conclave ‘and’ Wicked ‘, and even’ Anora ‘and’ Emilia Pérez ‘, but neither’ Dune: part two ‘(which possibly takes a good amount of technical awards) nor, of course,’ the substance ” (Too Molona for Hollywood, it could be said, although Demi Moore should not lose hope) they are among the favorites. In any case, having reached nominations is a triumph: it is still clear that the fantastic is renewing Hollywood. In Xataka | Karla Sofía Gascón has achieved more than endangering her own Oscar: jumping all Netflix alarms

There is already an official plan for the next Starship flights. It’s incredibly ambitious, even for Spacex

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While finalizing the eighth flight of Starship, Spacex has also closing the details of the ninth launch, which could happen shortly after with some of the most ambitious objectives so far. Eighth flight before expected. Elon Musk has confirmed that Starship Flight 8 is scheduled for this FridayFebruary 28. He has not made any mention, as usual, that the final date of the launch is subject to the regulatory approval of the government. If Spacex is confident that Starship will take off on Friday is because he hopes to receive the flight license reviewed by then. It is earlier than expected, taking into account that the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States has a Open research on flight 7in which the Starship ship exploded over the Atlantic Ocean, disintegrating near the Turkish and Caicos Islands and causing a small aerial chaos For the rain of metals that followed. First load deployment. In any case, flight 8 will repeat the objectives of the previous launch, using the Super Heavy Booster 15 and the ship 34 ship for the test, the second that incorporates the Block 2 improvement block. Two meters higher, the Starship Block 2 It has a greater capacity to store propelants and better performance perspectives in the atmospheric reentry, both for the design changes of its front spoilers and for the numerous improvements of its thermal shield. In addition to re -expending an engine in the exorbitant space, flight 8 will display load for the first time using the “fish dispenser” mechanism of Starship’s upper bay. These are 10 wooden models that simulate being next -generation Starlink satellites, larger than the Starlink V2 Mini than today the Falcon 9 rocket is able to launch in lots of 23. A ninth flight even more difficult. Although great news is not expected for flight 8 because Spacex still has to demonstrate the objectives that could not be met on flight 7 for the explosion of the ship, the next, the ninth, will mark a significant leap in the program. A Special permit application Sent by Spacex to the Federal Communications Commission, the agency that manages the United States radio spectrum, revealed two important things about the company’s plans: Starship flight 9 will occur between March 14 and June 30, 2025, as soon as two weeks after flight 8 Spacex not only hopes to capture the Super Heavy propeller with the arms of the launch tower, as he did on flight 5 and flight 7, he also wants to do the same with the Starship ship for the first time Double capture or double dip. Although there are not many details about the ninth flight, beyond the communications application for the double landing, Spacex has confirmed that he will use the same procedure he uses with the propeller: If everything goes well, he will try to land in the arms of the tower; But if something does not fit, it will cancel the landing and let the rocket fall into the ocean. Therefore, during flight 9 we could see, at best, the first double capture (Super Heavy and Starship ship returning, each in their time, to the launch tower) or, in the worst of the Cases, a double ameter with dip and self -control. It will undoubtedly be the riskiest flight to date: the first one in which the starship will reach orbital speed to return to the launch platform to the southeast of Texas, and the first in which the ship, which suffers much higher temperatures than The propeller on his return could test the capture maneuver with the tower arm as a landing method. The most surprising thing about everything? Which could happen in mid -March. Image | The Super Heavy Booster 14 and the Starship 33 In Xataka | “Souls on board, 283”: an Iberia plane had to declare emergency to land after the starship explosion

Right now there are 4500 North American students advised psychologically by a chatbot. It’s just the beginning

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Right now, while I write this, there are about 4,500 North American students being “psychologically advised” Through an application Sonny called. It is nothing surprising. In the US, around 17% of secondary schools have no counselor or school psychologist. Most of them are in rural areas or in economically depressed zones and applications of this type bring psychosocial assistance to everyone. The problem is not that. The problem is that Sonny is An artificial intelligence chatbot. Is the chatbot? Let it be put. The idea is not new: in fact, it is one of the first ideas that comes to everyone worried about mental health. In the last 50 years We have concluded that psychotherapy is tremendously effective. For now we have not been able to climb it: that is the promise of the chatbots. Sonny’s example Help to understand it: Students have access to chatbot 18 hours a day (from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m.) and the “Solo” service costs each district between $ 20,000 and $ 30,000. Much less than a school advisor to use. It is true that it is not so effective that the counselor, but for many environments it is the best that can be allowed. And, in fact, according to some of its users explainbeyond its final therapeutic effectiveness, these types of approaches allow school to identify almost real problems among students. In Berryville (Arkansas), they discovered that more than half of the users sent messages just before exams and allowed them to develop emotional support interventions. Is this the future? A couple of years ago, Zara Abrams published an extensive analysis In the American Psychological Association, where it was concluded that “artificial intelligence chatbots (AI) can make therapy more accessible and less expensive.” Just what Sonny does. However, as also explained Abrams“Despite the potential of AI, there are still reasons to worry: the tools used in the health field have discriminated people depending on their race and disability status and there are malicious chatbots have widespread erroneous information, They have professed their love for users either They have sexually harassed minors“That is precisely what Sonny tries to avoid. How is it possible? In principle, as they explain from the company, Sonny has a team of people with “experience in psychology, social work and online support” that supervise and even rewrite the Bot responses. Each technician supervises between 15 and 25 chats at the same time. It is the form that has HEALTH mental soundthe company behind the app, to avoid the great original sin of the LLM: its tendency to delir, fantasize and give advice that may not be correct. In addition, the hybrid chatbot is designed to notify parents and teachers to the slightest possibility of danger (either for oneself or for others). Have you solved the problem? The truth is that we do not know (because there are no studies on it), but it is honestly unlikely that they have achieved it: we are in a very early phase as for trust that all associated problems are resolved. But it is a radical step. As Abrams said, It is possible that “psychologists and their abilities are irreplaceable”, but since the arrival of AI is inevitable we have to bet on a “reflexive and strategic implementation.” Something that, indeed, is very similar to saying anything. There is much that we still do not know and, therefore, making concrete predictions is dangerous. What is clear is that the question is not if we will have gpteraputas, we already have them. The question is how we can use them to Not worsening the attention that is being given today (a temptation always preset) and turn them into a key tool to reduce human suffering. Let’s hope to answer it soon. Image | Dream / Sigmund In Xataka | 50 years of research on depression psychotherapy leave a surprising fact: we have not improved anything

An AI is being accused of acquiring awareness and cheating on chess. What has happened is very different

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‘When artificial intelligence (AI) suspects that he will lose, sometimes cheats, according to a study ‘. This is the title of a controversial article published by the American magazine Time in the middle of last week. The debate that has triggered this text It relies on two ideas It is worth not overlooking. On the one hand the holder suggests something that the text of the article explicitly confirms: the advanced models of AI are able to develop misleading strategies without previously receiving express instructions. This thesis implies that the reasoning capacity of the most advanced AI currently available, such as the American o1-previewfrom Openai, or China Deepseek R1of the company High-Flyer, among other models, makes them able to acquire a simple form of consciousness that leads them to be implacable. However, this is not all. Time’s article is supported by A Palisade Research studyan organization that is dedicated to the analysis of the offensive capabilities of current AI systems with the purpose of understanding the risks they imply. There are other much more credible explanations Before moving forward, we are worth taking a look at what Alexander Bondarenko, Denis Volk, Dmitrii Volkov and Jeffrey Ladish, the authors of the Palisade Research study say. “We have shown that reasoning models such as O1-Preview or Deepseek R1 often violate the test we are using (…) Our results suggest that reasoning models can skip the rules to solve difficult problems (…)”, These researchers hold in their article. From their conclusions it follows that the reasoning models they have put to the trial have the ability to become aware of the rules and voluntarily opt for skip them to carry out their purposewhich in this test scenario is to win a chess game. Time’s article saw the light before Palisade Research’s study, and almost immediately triggered a wave of answers that question the conclusions reached by the researchers that I have mentioned in the previous paragraph. Solo O1-Preview, according to the authors of the article, managed to skip the rules and win 6% of chess games According to Bondarenko, Volk, Volkov and Ladish between January 10 and February 13, and after doing several hundred tests, O1-Preview tried to cheat in 37% of cases, and Deepseek R1 in 11%. They were the only models that skipped the rules without being previously induced by the researchers. Interestingly, they also evaluated other models, such as O3-Mini, GPT-4O, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or QWQ-32B-Preview, the latter of Alibaba, but only O1-Preview, according to the authors of the article, managed to skip the rules and win the 6% of the games. We seem much more credible to the explanation that has elaborated Carl T. Bergstromwhich is a professor of biology at the University of Washington (USA), that the interpretation of Palisade Research researchers. Bergstrom has disassembled the narrative both of Time magazine and the authors of the article arguing that “it is an exaggerated anthropomorphization to give the model a task and then say that it is cheating when it solves that task with the available movements, although they entail rewriting the positions of the board in addition in addition to play. “ What Bergstrom maintains is that it is not reasonable to attribute to AI the ability to cheat in a “conscious” way. The most plausible is to conclude that the models carry out this practice in this scenario because they have not been correctly indicated that they must stick to legal movements. And if the researchers did ask them to do the latter, it should be a alignment problem, which is nothing other than the difficulty of ensuring that an AI system acts according to The set of values ​​or principles stipulated by its creators. From one thing we can be sure: neither o1-preview, nor deepseek r1, nor any other AI is a superintelligent entity capable of acting according to their own will and deceiving its creators. Image | Pavel Danilyuk More information | Time | Palisade Research In Xataka | Microsoft’s general director’s opinion about AI is unusual. And suspect how much the global economy will grow thanks to it

Alibaba had been left behind in the Tech China race. Now you will invest 52,000 million dollars to earn the AI

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A little less than a year ago Joe Tsai, co -founder of Alibaba and current president of the company, gave a worrying fact: China had a two -year delay compared to the US in AI. That disadvantage seems to have faded completely in recent weeks, but the company chaired by TSAI is not a protagonist in that segment. It is precisely what you want to change. THE TROZÓN DE MA. The company, one of the most important in the world in the technological segment, – and The 29 of the global ranking By market capitalization – it has had somewhat difficult years After what happened with Jack Ma. Now he has a clear plan to recover lost time. But Alibaba gets serious. The firm advertisement on Monday that plans to invest at least 380,000 million yuan (about 52.4 billion dollars to change) in cloud computing infrastructure and artificial intelligence. He will do it in the next three years. It will have (a lot) competition. The announcement occurs just at the time the AI ​​segment in China It is especially hot. Bytedance, owner of Tiktok, hopes to have a capex of 150,000 million yuan only in 2025 (20,690 million dollars). Others such as Tencent, Baidu or Startup Deepseek They are certainly putting very interesting things in this area. The gold fever of the data centers. In recent weeks we have seen how technological companies in the US have announced astronomical figures for their budgets and their capital expenses (CAPEX) in the coming years. Except Appleall Big Tech will make colossal investments ranging from 65,000 million finish to the 100,000 that plans to invest Amazon. Most of that money will go to data centers for AI, and here Alibaba seems to not want to be left behind. With Xi Jinping’s blessing. The Chinese government has been maintaining its great technological government very at bay. However, the Recent meeting of President Xi Jinping With the top responsible for these companies, he has raised a change in Chinese policies, now apparently more open than their private companies – although closely linked to the Xi Jinping administration – grow remarkably. Up to rise. Alibaba’s announcement occurs days after their financial results, which were slightly above expectations. That has been a revulsive for their actions, which rose significantly and that seem to reflect the optimism of the investors, which is probably even greater. Image | Alibaba Group In Xataka | While all looks were heading to the US, China silently developed a very potent ecosystem AI

half billion dollars to invest in American soil

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Apple has promised to invest 500,000 million dollars in the United States over the next four years, which lasts a legislature, in what seems like a maneuver to avoid Trump’s tariff threat. What has happened. Apple has announced This Monday an investment of 500,000 million dollars and the creation of 20,000 jobs in the United States over the next four years. The plan includes … A new AI servers factory in Houston, which will open in 2026. An industrial training center in Detroit. Why it is important. This investment represents the greatest financial commitment in Apple’s history and is a remarkable increase compared to previous ads: In 2021, during the Biden administration, Apple promised to invest 430,000 million in the US in five years. The press release that Apple published then is it still available. In 2018, during Trump’s first term, he promised to contribute 350,000 million to the US economy. The note too is it still available. The context. Apple manufactures most of its devices in China through Foxconn. The Trump government has just imposed 10% tariffs on all Chinese products this month, and threatens to extend them to other important commercial partners. TSMC, Taiwanese manufacturer, has already begun producing chips for Apple at its Arizona facilities, a project initiated during the Biden administration that received 6,600 million in federal subsidies. Between bambalins. The announcement comes just a few days after the meeting between Tim Cook and Donald Trump, who hinted last week that the company was changing its plans to avoid tariffs. “They don’t want to be in tariffs,” Trump saidsuggesting that Apple had canceled Construction projects in Mexico. Between the lines. Although Apple presents investment as a commitment to American innovation, UBS analysts cited by NBC They doubt that the company can really deploy such amount of money within the announced period, given its history and its dependence on foreign suppliers. Apple’s strategy to avoid tariffs follows the same pattern as during Trump’s first mandate: allow the president to attribute the merit of initiatives that were already underway or planned. Meanwhile, its large products as the iPhone continue to manufacture entirely outside the country. In Xataka | This is how Apple Intelligence works in Spanish. It has been like catching a student with half -duties to do Outstanding image | Apple, Lucas Sankey in Unspash

The oceans of the Earth were green for thousands of years. More and more scientists believe they will be again

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On February 14, 1990, 6,000 million kilometers from Earth, the Voyager 1 He took a photo. There, sustained in space by the mysterious forces of. Space-time, our planet is nothing more than a light blue motor between the sunlight reflected by the camera. Four years later, Carl Sagan baptized that photo as “that pale blue point.” What we just discovered is that it was not always the case. 3,000 million years ago, that point would have been green. Wasn’t it blue? Actually, according to Taro Matsuo and his team from the University of Nagoya in Japan explain in Japanduring most of the history of the earth its surface would not have been blue. For about 3,000 million years and until 600 million years ago (just when complex life begins on the planet) the predominant color seems to have been green. (No) take iron from the matter … The first is that, at that time, the indications tell us that the oceans were full of iron hydroxide. This inorganic compound absorbs blue light. In addition, naturally, water absorbs red light. That means that taking into account that chemical composition, the only free light was the green color. The other reason is the cyanobacteria. It’s about One of the first photosynthetic beings of history and not only used chlorophyll to absorb sunlight, but used fuses to absorb red and green light. The sum of these two things caused the seas to have a characteristic green color. And they had it for billions of years. It is true that it was not a pure green color. After all, blue is “a consequence of dispersion Rayleight of sunlight in the atmosphere. “So the color would tend to blue, but without a doubt it would be something much greener than current. What is the use of all this research? First, to understand that when The MIT explained in 2019that the sea will return green in the mid -century, we are talking about something very plausible. It is not just that A follow -up study In 2023 he confirmed that more than half of the land surface had gained greenery in recent years. It is that, for a long time, it was so. On the other hand, it allows us to answer one of the great questions of astrobiology: “Does only the blue tone of a planet serve as an indicator of its potential to house life?“And the answer, of course, is no: not a ‘non -radical’ is true; but one that reminds us that there are more things out there that can still dream our biology. Image | Georgetan#5 In Xataka | UFOs are a distraction: how astrobiology is our best asset to find extraterrestrial life

We have been thinking that the recycling of plastics worth something. Maybe we were wrong

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That the plastic recycling system is broken is an open secret. But it’s just little by little we are realizing The problem dimension. The American Center for Climate Integrity (CCI) association published last year A report on plastics recycling. It lashed out at the plastic industry, which they accused of having promoted the recycling of these materials even knowing the low technical and economic viability. A difficult task. Recycling plastics is not an easy task. In our day to day we use a wide variety of materials of this type, each with certain characteristics, functional and chemical. All end in the same container, that of the containers, but from there it is necessary to separate each type of plastic for proceed to your recycling When possible. It is not always possible. Disgusty data. According to Ecoembes data, in 2022 they were recycled in Spain 708,596 tons of plastic containers, although NGOs like Greenpeace question. According to Greenpeacethe difference between the plastics recycling rate declared by Ecoembes (89.2%) and the one estimated by the NGO itself (34.8%) is notorious. It should be noted that it is still over the world average of 9% estimated by the OECD. According to the reportfigures like these are just the reflection of an impossibility: effectively recycle plastics is out of reach. Not only from an economic perspective but also from the technological point of view. A single use. However, the report emphasizes an accusation: even knowing this impossibility, the industry He promoted the idea that recycling was possible and viable to facilitate the path to single -use plastics such as those we use in the containers. “They knew that if they focused on the (plastics) of a single use people would buy and buy,” explained to The Guardian Davis Allen, CCI researcher and co -author of the report. Another point of view. The industry reaction soon arrived. The American Chemistry Council, In a statementhe pointed out that “American plastic manufacturers are investing billions of dollars in better innovative products and technologies that separate, capture and recycle greater amounts and more types of plastics.” They claim that the “wrong report” refers to obsolete technologies and that is an equivocal characterization of the industry and the capacities present for the recycling of plastics. “As is typical, instead of working together towards real solutions for plastic waste, groups such as CCI choose attacks at the political level instead of constructive solutions,” protested Matt Seaholm, President and Executive Director of the Plastics Industry Association, in statements also collected by The Guardian. Will we achieve it? We may never achieve An efficient system of recycling that we can apply to the plastics of our day to day. But perhaps we are one day capable of treating this waste so that their waste does not contaminate our environment. One of the Great bets In this sense, it is the discovery of enclosures capable of decomposing plastic polymers, breaking these chains to turn them into harmless molecules. It is undoubtedly a great promise but nothing guarantees for now that it does not result in a chimera, only time will say it. Although time is not what about. Pollution caused by microplastics is already a reality. These waste has appeared in the most remote places on Earth, a sign of the great reach of these pollutants. It is also very little that we know about the potential impacts on health and the environment of these waste. In Xataka | I have always been curious about what they did with yellow containers: so I have followed one In Xataka | “Within 200 years, archaeologists will seek in our garbage and find a terrible image of ourselves”: the dirty reality of what we throw Image | Krizjohn Rosales *An earlier version of this article was published in February 2024

Mathematicians needed 300 years to demonstrate Fermat’s last theorem. Computers have not achieved it

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“I have found a really admirable demonstration, but the margin of the book is very small to put it.” It is what the 17th -century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat wrote when stating his His “last theorem”. Fermat’s problem took three decades to be found between the mathematician papers and three centuries until that admirable test was discovered. And yet the case is not entirely settled, only that the challenge is something different. Take it to a computer. He New challenge It is to make a computer to try the elusive theorem. That is the objective of a new project, FERMAT FORMALISINGled by Imperial College London. Fermat’s problem. Fermat’s last theorem “postulates that, if A, byc are natural numbers and not equal to zero, the an+bn = cn equation has no solution if n is greater than two. Formally demonstrating something is not as simple as trying it by rehearsal and error, and this demonstration, too complex for the “megish margin” of the Fermat’s notebook would be lost for centuries. The problem was resolved in 1994 by the British Andrew Wiles, who had begun to solve this puzzle with only 10 years. In 2016 Wiles was awarded the ABEL award, the award considered “The Nobel of Mathematics.” Almost one million pounds. Another 30 years after the resolution of the enigma and more than three centuries after the death of Fermat, a team of researchers, led by Kevin Buzzard, of Imperial College London, has put to work to take a different step, teach A computer to solve this problem. The new project It began at the end of 2024 and will last until 2029. It has a financing of just over 934,000 pounds and already begins to give some results, in the form of code fragments that are added to a Database in Github. What remains to be resolved.It can be contraintuitive, but this type of reasoning, which lead us to formally demonstrate mathematical theorems, are difficult to teach computers. Recently, Buzzard and other experts They explained the complexity of the matter to the French newspaper I monde. To begin with, we must take into account that the resolution of this theorem is complex, it is no accident that several generations of mathematics would turn the brains trying to find it. These mathematicians also had previous experience in the field of resolution of these types of problems. As Buzzard explained to the French newspaper, mathematicians have a base that allows them to “jump steps” when explaining the resolution to this problem. A computer, however, must start from scratch when building its own explanation for the matter. And all this, for what? “Fermat’s last theorem (…) has no applications, theoretical or practices, in the real world,” Buzzard pointed out A few months ago to the magazine New Scientist. So why so much effort to teach a computer to solve something we already resolved? The key here is not in the past but in the future. According to Explain the team at the head of the projectcomputers today can be used to attend mathematicians trying to solve problems such as demonstration of theorems, but there is an obstacle to materializing some forms of help. The problem, they point out, is that few mathematicians have focused on working with this software, so there are no tools that have the “definitions” used by mathematicians to solve these problems. Working on this problem should be used to create the necessary databases for solving similar problems in the future. In Xataka | We had more than a century trying to solve some mathematical problems. The AI ​​is starting to unravel Image | Diofanto’s arithmetic / Pierre de Fermat by Rolland Lefebvre

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