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Mathematicians are grappling with the possibility that AI might eclipse them
(www.understandingai.org)
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
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Finding a proof is different than solving a math problem.
You're right. The first is way harder and requires being able to do the second. Which it can't.
Except this article is literally about the response to AI doing it multiple times.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/openais-math-breakthrough-played-to-ais-strengths/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ai-disproves-a-decades-old-mathematical-idea-the-biggest-conjecture-that-the-tech-has-played-a-role-in-yet-180989189/
https://patmcguinness.substack.com/p/openais-astra-tackles-mathematical
The whole, "LLMs can't do basic math," thing is outdated.
How so? Particularly in intuitionist logic it would seem to me that they are the same thing.