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Mathematicians are grappling with the possibility that AI might eclipse them (www.understandingai.org)
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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

Yes, scientific articles are expensive.

Doesn't have to be scientific articles, it can easily be a normal article that state that scientists have confirmed the findings independently.
This is a very common thing for normal media to describe. The second article you linked would most probably have included that if such confirmation existed.

I linked to evidence that mathematicians are using LLMs to find proofs

No you didn't, the article described a researcher testing the capabilities of AI, nothing in the article was really about math, it was all about the AI, and the whole story reeks of sensationalism.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If you wish, this was indipendently confirmed: the same proof was published by two authors at the same time.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-helped-produce-two-proofs-for-the-same-cryptography-problem/

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Neither paper has been peer-reviewed

But that's not really the point, the point is that yes maybe AI can solve long standing mathematical problems, but they need to be confirmed by REAL mathematicians.
Because AI has been shown to hallucinate and lie when presented with problems they can't solve.

There are many claims about AI solving hard mathematical problems, but very few that are confirmed. These stories seem to at least to some degree to act as advertising for AI services.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 0 points 3 weeks ago

Two researchers came to the same solution to a problem. In my books that's better than peer review.

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