GPT-5.2 Just Rewrote a Physics Result — and the AI Debate Quietly Changed
GPT-5.2 Just Rewrote a Physics Result — and the AI Debate Quietly Changed I had this uncomfortable thought reading the news this morning: the “can AI really think?” argument suddenly feels outdated, almost nostalgic, like we’re arguing about whether the internet is a fad while someone just rewrote a textbook behind our backs. And I don’t mean hype this time. I mean a peer-reviewed preprint, a particle physics problem long assumed to be solved, and a model that found the accepted answer was wrong. That model was OpenAI’s GPT-5.2. And it didn’t just suggest a tweak. It independently discovered a new mathematical formula and then autonomously wrote the full formal proof in 12 hours. That detail alone makes me pause longer than I expected. Because writing a proof isn’t autocomplete. It’s structure. It’s internal consistency. It’s symbolic reasoning sustained over pages. The result was verified by physicists from Harvard, Cambridge, and Princeton, which immediately removes t...
