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minimaxirtoday at 6:02 PM1 replyview on HN

I'll have a blog post up tomorrow about it but the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample is a very funny cognitohazard for LLM assistants. It's a paradox for modern LLMs: they have enough math skills such that they can easily compute the Jacobian to formally verify the counterargument, but its own knowledge base is locked prior July 19th 2026 where all it knows is that the Jacobian Conjecture is unsolved and a random chat user providing such a proof is highly unlikely.


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bananaflagtoday at 6:03 PM

I wonder whether when the fact that AIs have started solving conjectures will enter the training data, they will become more confident in their abilities.