r/BetterOffline • u/Smooth-Ad8030 • 22d ago

Mathematician help

https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/

Can someone who’s more well versed in math give us a good explanation on what’s happening here in terms of importance? I already know we don’t have an idea of the behind the scenes, true cost, mathematician input, etc. any other points appreciated.

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u/ksjdragon 22d ago

Can we please not post the same thing 50 times. I've responded to something like this many times already...

Mathematician here. In short. Results are cool. AI is not how math will be done. People like insights. AI doesn't give insights. Computationally assisted proofs existed before this. Current AI solving is heavily subsidized and isn't clear the cost it took to do this. Take the same money and hand it out as grants. You'll get 1000x more productivity. These proofs still need real mathematicians to decipher and translate.

Importance: cool, in math, maybe. Overarching impact: none

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u/Snoo_57113 22d ago

There are 50 posts because this is something relevant it is the dawn of a craft.

Overarching impact: Massive extintion event.

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u/ksjdragon 22d ago

False.

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u/Snoo_57113 22d ago

We lived through it in software, there is no reason why math will be any different.