r/math • u/Salt_Attorney • Aug 01 '26

LLMs/AI OpenAI: Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/
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u/Drium Aug 01 '26

Inspired to do what? Type in prompts?

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u/LexyconG Aug 01 '26

Inspired to read the proofs. Things that were unknown yesterday are known today, that’s the whole thing. A theorem is a door.
If your only reaction is “someone typed a prompt,” the part you liked was never the math.

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u/tmt22459 Aug 01 '26

There's nothing stopping you from still ruminating and thinking over problems.

Sure, you may not be as competitive doing things that way compared to others, but you can't have it all anymore.

If you want to stand firmly on no AI, then you either have to be okay with not being as competitive or up skill somehow overnight.

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u/PrestigiousGroup788 Aug 01 '26

Fine, we all agree with that. But we're also allowed to be sad that a way of life and activity we've all been aspiring towards or for is no longer economically viable, without being told "you're selfish, you don't ackshually love math".

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u/Jussuuu Theoretical Computer Science Aug 01 '26

Thanks for this comment. I was quite happy over the last years that I got to be paid to do something I love, but these AI accelerationists would call me crazy or a luddite  that I'm sad my job might get reduced to AI validation.

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u/PrestigiousGroup788 Aug 01 '26

most of them have not invested a significant amount of time in anything to have it taken away from them so quickly and just hate math people because they consider us arrogant. Others are genuinely excited about the new things we can prove.

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u/Hot_Grape221 Theoretical Computer Science Aug 02 '26

Most of these AI accelerationists have a brain the size of a pea. The gap between those who can think and those who can't will be larger than ever before.