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Is this the ‘mathocalypse’? Why OpenAI’s latest results dump has left mathematicians in shock (theconversation.com)
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[–] 6 points 5 days ago (1 child)

if you put infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters, one of them will eventually write a proof of something. that doesn't make that monkey, much less the entire collection of monkeys, a mathematician

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    if you put infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters, one of them will eventually write a proof of something.

    Okay, but that’s not what OpenAI is doing.

    that doesn’t make that monke […] a mathematician

    Nor is OpenAI a mathematician, but the article isn’t claiming that it is.

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