Patterns in the world’s unsolved problems

The Problem Genome is a human–AI collaboration project at Dartmouth that points researchers’ and project-based learners’ attention to worthy problems, domain knowledge, and what it will take to solve them.

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What kinds of problems do you like to solve?

invisible water, no treaty

built without the people who'd live with it

Or start with this one. It is a real, open problem from an expert source.

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600+ problems and counting · 19 families · 80 genes · all real · sources checked at intake · 205 read line by line against their sources · 3 flagged for deeper sourcing · all open

Problem families — different problems, same issues

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it worked in the lab92 problems · 17 fieldsdrawn as: the divide the problem lives in the rulebook was written for a world that no longer exists38 problems · 15 fieldsdrawn as: the thing that's missing or being lost the context you didn’t design for31 problems · 12 fieldsdrawn as: two readings that don't agree the solution exists but nobody can afford it30 problems · 15 fieldsdrawn as: stretched thin — waits, shortages, thin margins making one is easy. making a million is the problem30 problems · 15 fieldsdrawn as: the divide the problem lives in · stretched thin — waits, shortages, thin margins the model was never trained on this29 problems · 15 fieldsdrawn as: the thing that's missing or being lost

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Say what kind of challenges you like and how far your team should get in a term. We will show six problems that fit.

Looking across every field. To narrow it, choose a field at the top of the page.

What kind of challenge do you like?what holds the problem back most

How far should your team get in a semester?

Which workbenches do you want to work at?the kinds of systems the problem involves. Optional.

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