Why is it strange? Are you familiar with how unsupervised proofs are made? It’s basically iterating on Lean code, even if it were able to explain the code to humans it doesn’t mean it can extract actual understanding and structure from it. The papers being outputted by these approaches are nowhere close to being understandable, much less useful.
> If the AI can digest it better, then academic mathematicians will become humanities professors
Cool, then once that happens we can discuss what to do. In the meantime, AI does not digest proofs properly, does not explain them and does not generate any understanding, and it doesn’t look like that’s going to change. Hence the letter and the criticism made to the approach taken by AI labs. It is not that hard to understand.
> If the AI can digest it better, then academic mathematicians will become humanities professors
Cool, then once that happens we can discuss what to do. In the meantime, AI does not digest proofs properly, does not explain them and does not generate any understanding, and it doesn’t look like that’s going to change. Hence the letter and the criticism made to the approach taken by AI labs. It is not that hard to understand.