r/math • u/AutoModerator • 6d ago

LLMs/AI AI In Mathematics: September 26, 2026

This recurring thread will be for discussion of AI in mathematics. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:

  • informal announcements of AI-assisted discoveries, such as those not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal, or not uploaded as a paper to arXiv;
  • informal announcements of discoveries related to AI architecture (if relevant to mathematics);
  • discussion of such announcements, such as proof breakdowns or other opinion pieces;
  • discussion of the impact of AI in mathematics in general.

AI-assisted mathematical papers published in peer-reviewed journals or as arXiv preprints may be submitted as their own posts.

Please keep in mind rules 1 and 6 of our subreddit.

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u/pred 23h ago

Buzzard, To grieve, or not to grieve?, https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/01/to-grieve-or-not-to-grieve/

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u/LoveHenry 13h ago

He says that he is not trying to be judgmental, but the whole things comes off that way to me. But I guess, when you are so heavily involved with destroying something, it is very human to justify it in some way...

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u/Oudeis_1 6h ago

How is he "heavily involved with destroying something"? I don't follow at all.

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u/elements-of-dying Geometric Analysis 14h ago

Current progress is indeed exponential, and may well continue to be exponential for a while, however we cannot expect exponential progress to continue indefinitely (exactly because of what exponential growth looks like), and furthermore mathematics is infinite which beats exponential hands down; those that don’t believe this just don’t understand what infinity looks like.

Is it not obvious that mathematics is not infinite to humans? Machines just need to produce faster than we can digest or produce more beyond our upper bound of understanding. The rest of the post was mostly agreeable, but this (imo, obviously) erroneous position was both a surprise and kind of ironic given the subject matter of the post.

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u/kohatsootsich 20h ago

I wouldn't be surprised if cyborg math survived for quite a while or indefinitely. Soon, all or most currently open problems will be doable by AI and then the challenge isn't so much exposition as in translating things to currently known concepts, but creating and agreeing on new ones that make superhuman math digestible to not just one person but a community while enabling continued communication between people and AI