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keedatoday at 6:16 AM1 replyview on HN

> LLMs will NEVER be able to do that, because it doesn't exist.

I mean, TFA literally claims that an AI has solved an open Frontier Math problem, descibed as "A collection of unsolved mathematics problems that have resisted serious attempts by professional mathematicians. AI solutions would meaningfully advance the state of human mathematical knowledge."

That is, if true, it reasoned out a proof that does not exist in its training data.


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tovejtoday at 6:24 AM

It generated a proof that was close enough to something in its training data to be generated.

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