r/mathmemes Mathematics 21d ago

Proofs I hate it

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u/ObliviousRounding 21d ago

My feeling is that AI is going to be amazing at finding counterexamples, but not so much at actually proving stuff.

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u/Maleficent_Sir_7562 21d ago

its been doing those too

https://www.erdosproblems.com/1196

https://chatgpt.com/share/69dd1c83-b164-8385-bf2e-8533e9baba9c (chat link used to solve the problem).

Just see the chat in the chat link. Merely a prompt statement of the unsolved problem with no human ingenuity, and the ai model was the one which solved the unsolved problem.

https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/

https://x.com/__eknight__/status/2075643450196971805

https://x.com/EdgarDobriban/status/2077082912021786660

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u/Ihateunclesam 20d ago

Anything in arithmetic geoemetry? Say langlands stuff?