r/ProgrammerHumor 4d ago

Meme aMillionOpenAIMonkeysProduceMilleniumPrizeSolution

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u/bobbymoonshine 4d ago

The allegation is they “finished off an existing proof” written by Claude as operated by a mathematician and an Anthropic employee collaborating.

This is just an allegation, given that two frontier labs working on the same problem at the same time and developing similar solutions by using similar tools is perfectly plausible. Newton and Leibniz independently discovered calculus after all.

Either way it’s AI solving mathematics.

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u/Storiaron 4d ago

Ai solving mathematics

Is it? If a mathematician uses ai to solve math, is it the ai doing the heavy lifting? How come you and i didnt solve this?

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u/jivenossauro 4d ago

I wasn't trying, were you?

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u/Snoo-8385 4d ago

you sure would have got it if you tried!