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Reconfiguring existing proofs in ways that have been tedious or obscured from humans, or using well framed methods in novel ways, will be done at superhuman speeds, and it'll unlock all sorts of capabilities well before we have to be concerned about AGI. It's going to be awesome to see what mathematicians start to do with AI tools as the tools become capable of truly keeping up with what the mathematicians want from the tools. It won't necessarily be a huge direct benefit for non-mathematicians at first, because the abstract and complex results won't have direct applications, but we might start to see millenium problems get taken down as legitimate frontier model benchmarks.

Or someone like Terence Tao might figure out how to wield AI better than anyone else, even the labs, and use the tools to take a bunch down at once. I'm excited to see what's coming this year.

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