alt Hacker NewsSome of the lean proofs are apparently incomprehensible.
It would be like trying to look at a completed video game's assembly code, being told that it was call of duty, and then being asked questions about the high level code architecture.
AI models are perhaps unsurprisingly good at low level translation (see the progress being made for decomp games)
These models have surpassed human capabilities at math/machine code, but they can't "simplify" yet - in part because they don't have the same need to due to their comparative lack of cognitive constraints. AI Slop code is getting better, but it takes time. At the moment, its embarrassing frankly. It will come eventually, but right now OpenAI is not handling this with the care, respect, or concern that it deserves.
Have you ever wrote some code/algo that seemed "simple/obvious" to you yet to someone else, it seemed incomprehensible?
If you have a 20-40 IQ points gap with another developer, this happens a lot.
The baseline of "simplify" is wildly different based on your IQ points. That's precisely why exceptional students are usually bad in teaching. They try to break things down, simplify, but things still go over the head of normies.
However, we can intervene/train the models. So it should be possible to focus on the simplification, and as you said, it will come eventually.