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There's a fundamental difference between the goal of code and math. The goal of code is to produce software that does something useful. As long as the code does what it's supposed to do, arguably, it's good to ship. (As you imply, we want the code to be good enough to also be reasonably certain there are not too many bugs, that it is maintainable and can be extended etc. This is what early models failed at but now seems broadly fine.)

But for math: what is the point of a proof if no one will read it and no one uses its result? To quote the article, "AI systems will [...] result in the production of an abundance of PDFs. The contents of some of those PDFs may even have important applications." But if there's no one reading the PDFs, what's the point - no matter how good your AI model.

The point of math is understanding. So mathematicians should feel free to use AI as much as you want, but in the end, they should've gained some understanding on what happened.

parent JW_00000 1 month ago

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