alt Hacker NewsAs a former mathematician, I'm kind of over them using the LLM for math. we know it works. I want them pointed at "data construction", like being libraries, theories and experiments. But I guess they are deduction machines and there is a lot of low hanging fruit with superhuman deduction in math.
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jey • today at 5:35 PM
> As a former mathematician, I'm kind of over them using the LLM for math.
As a non-mathematician who sometimes works on mathematical problems, I find this really puzzling. Why aren't mathematicians excited about the frontiers being unlocked by AI? The ability to discover more of the mathematical universe more readily?
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It feels different to me from the CS side - this paper in particular feels likely to open up new research instead of closing it off, and I find that really exciting and a worthwhile use of AI. Showing that there's a (completely impractical but who's counting) algorithm better than the previously hypothesized lower bounds seems like the kind of thing that will inspire a scramble to keep beating it (and figure out the true lower bound). I give this one a thumbs up.