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steinwinde • today at 3:43 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

No one is "responsible". If the paper is read, depends on the interest of the individual scientist. Many mathematicians interested in a theorem proven/disproven in a new AI paper will be curious, even if it is utterly cumbersome to extract the relevant line of thought. But don't you agree that the job can only be done by a mathematician anyway - be she/he paid by the company or by a university?!

What you are arguing for is somewhat like the "proprietary period" in astronomy (e.g. see https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-plan-to-mak... ). But there is no mathematician who asked for the run of AI, i.e. there is no mathematician, who can be regarded as the owner of the result, even if ownership was temporary. Complex proofs might take years to explain in detail (think of the ternary Goldbach problem, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach%27s_weak_conjecture ). It's just unfair, if AI companies held back with their data until a proof has been put into a nicely readable article, and at the same time mathematicians elsewhere are spending all their time trying to solve it.