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tomberttoday at 2:55 AM2 repliesview on HN

It's definitely gotten considerably better, though I still have issues with it generating proofs, at least with TLAPS.

I think behind the scenes it's phoning Wolfram Alpha nowadays for a lot of the numeric and algebraic stuff. For all I know, they might even have an Isabelle instance running for some of the even-more abstract mathematics.

I agree that this is largely an early ChatGPT problem though, I just thought it was interesting in that they were "plausible" mistakes. I could totally see twelve-year-old tombert making these exact mistakes, so I thought it was interesting that a robot is making the same mistakes an amateur human makes.


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tptacektoday at 2:58 AM

I assumed it was just writing SymPy or something.

CamperBob2today at 4:47 AM

I think behind the scenes it's phoning Wolfram Alpha nowadays for a lot of the numeric and algebraic stuff. For all I know, they might even have an Isabelle instance running for some of the even-more abstract mathematics.

Maybe, but they swear they didn't use external tools on the IMO problem set.