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Comment by don_esteban

Leaving aside the (much more important) issue of monopolizing intelligence, and assuming the claimed result is indeed correct, the question is whether a) the correctness proof is indeed too complex to be understood by humans, or b) the creator (the LLM) is not able to write it down in a form digestible by humans.

Observing the LLM output on problems that have clear solutions invented by humans, I tend to believe that too many people are jumping to conclusions too soon and interpreting b) as a).

If the LLMs are truly so great, we should see (in a short time, i.e. in order of months) a transformation of the math proofs generated by LLMs from the current state of indigestible mess to something that indeed looks like written by human for humans.

Only then would one be able to claim that we got into situation a).

parent don_esteban 11 days ago

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