Afghanistan, Jan. 2 -- Muhammad Sediq Afghan, a noted mathematician from Afghanistan, recently claimed in an interview with prominent journalist Hafizullah Mohammadi that he had developed a formula for artificial intelligence as early as 1976. The interview, broadcast on Mohammadi's widely followed digital news channel, included Sediq Afghan showing what he described as a letter from a Virginia-based research center acknowledging receipt of his documents. He asserted that the letter validated his contribution to AI.
In response to these claims, our news agency sought to verify the information using an AI application. We consulted an artificial intelligence tool to cross-check historical facts and the background of AI development. According...