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OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again (www.wired.com)
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[–] 27 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Hinestly, AI can be a great tool to further evolve mathematics,but you still have to understand every gory detail it did to solve the problem. If you can't do that, it's not solved.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Also all ML models have some accuracy less than 100%, that means you can’t trust it. The whole point in the proof is perfection

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  • [–] 15 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    The proofs are written in Lean so, like in all mathematics, you don't have to trust the person because you can independently verify the proof.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    That's not how Lean works.

    1. implementation of Lean is buggy.
    2. having a Lean Theorem/Proof only proves they are connected to the axioms
    3. Lean is not enough to personally verify the proof. We can see that even now with the stolen C+D Navier proof, where OpenAi paper - as we know since yesterday - is... possibly false (well, we know that the lean code does not match the paper, let the mathematicians cook).
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