8 pointsby silentmafia4 hours ago4 comments
  • mkprc17 minutes ago
    The (boring) answer to "who gets the prize?" is whoever the CMI decides gets the prize.

    https://www.claymath.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/millenni...

  • al_borland3 hours ago
    A months ago headlines read that ChatGPT “solved” an 80 year old Erdős problem.

    I found Cal Newport’s take on this to be much more balanced. From what I remember, ChatGPT didn’t “solve” anything. It dumped out a bunch of text, that humans reviewed, and it gave them an idea for how to disprove a thing Erdős thought was true, but couldn’t prove.

    https://youtu.be/fhZRWZ6J4k4

    In cases like this, it seemed like the LLM got a lot more credit than it deserved. So I’m guessing it would go something like that.

    • vanuatu34 minutes ago
      LLMs are increasingly solving math problems on their own, producing entire correct proofs

      I like Cal but his takes consistently miss the slope of improvement of the technology

  • soupspaces2 hours ago
    Euler
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