alt Hacker NewsYep. There may be only 25-50 people alive today in the whole world who can credibly claim to understand Wiles' proof. Now we add an LLM to that list. Absolutely mind-blowing stuff.
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bigstrat2003 • yesterday at 8:41 PM
> Now we add an LLM to that list.
No we cannot. LLMs do not, by their very nature, understand a single thing. You are giving far too much credence to hype and marketing.
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But isn't that understanding discarded? It is if you mean "intermediate working state" while it was generating the LEAN code. Which raises the question: I wonder what other directions it could have gone in those intermediate states? Is it possible to snapshot the state of an LLM (or a cluster of them) "in the middle of proving FLT" and then prompt it to go in a different direction with all that context?