{"slug": "gpt-5-6-sol-reportedly-disproves-a-30-year-old-statistics-conjecture-in-90-after", "title": "GPT-5.6 Sol reportedly disproves a 30-year-old statistics conjecture in 90 minutes after humans couldn't crack it", "summary": "A University of Pennsylvania statistics professor used OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Pro to disprove a 30-year-old conjecture about the Benjamini-Hochberg method in 90 minutes, a problem that had resisted human solution. The achievement raises questions about whether AI can produce genuinely new knowledge or merely recombine existing information.", "body_md": "A University of Pennsylvania statistics professor used OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Pro to disprove a central open conjecture about the Benjamini-Hochberg method in roughly 90 minutes. The predecessor model, GPT-5.5, couldn't find a solution even after 20 hours. The answer combines known methods in a new way, keeping the bigger question alive: can AI produce genuinely new knowledge, or does it just recombine what it already learned?\n\nThe article [GPT-5.6 Sol reportedly disproves a 30-year-old statistics conjecture in 90 minutes after humans couldn't crack it](https://the-decoder.com/gpt-5-6-sol-reportedly-disproves-a-30-year-old-statistics-conjecture-in-90-minutes-after-humans-couldnt-crack-it/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gpt-5-6-sol-reportedly-disproves-a-30-year-old-statistics-conjecture-in-90-after", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/gpt-5-6-sol-reportedly-disproves-a-30-year-old-statistics-conjecture-in-90-minutes-after-humans-couldnt-crack-it/", "published_at": "2026-07-15 17:35:12+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-15 18:03:26.359580+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "GPT-5.6 Sol Pro", "University of Pennsylvania", "Benjamini-Hochberg method"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gpt-5-6-sol-reportedly-disproves-a-30-year-old-statistics-conjecture-in-90-after", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gpt-5-6-sol-reportedly-disproves-a-30-year-old-statistics-conjecture-in-90-after.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gpt-5-6-sol-reportedly-disproves-a-30-year-old-statistics-conjecture-in-90-after.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gpt-5-6-sol-reportedly-disproves-a-30-year-old-statistics-conjecture-in-90-after.jsonld"}}