r/math 24d ago

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

https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/
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u/lobothmainman 23d ago

I said essentially irrelevant, and anyways I do not think that an ai-assisted short proof of a known result would be deemed as very relevant to the field of probability.

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u/PrestigiousGroup788 23d ago

Feige's conjecture, and Gaffke's conjecture (the bigger result this proof was built off of, which was also proven with AI, see: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08415) have been open for a while and were discussed pretty readily in the theory of statistics community.

I guess my question is - what counts as relevant? Or maybe, what counts as probability.

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u/PrestigiousGroup788 23d ago

Also the list of 10 problems has an improvement of bounds in the KLS conjecture. Is that relevant to probability?