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bgirardyesterday at 7:14 PM4 repliesview on HN

It's really neat that the prompt was released!

I'm curious how many unsolved problems are tried against frontier models when they come out. Are we trying every problems against every release? What is the solve success rate? Is there a sub-community within Mathematics that is coordinating this effort? How much untapped opportunity is there here?


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singularity2001today at 8:08 AM

Very good question I can only answer for one subset tracked by Terence Tao

https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems

edflsafoiewqyesterday at 11:37 PM

I find it kind of interesting the whole output wasn't released. A common criticism of mathematical writing is results are "pulled out of a hat"; you only write up a polished, final proof, but hide everything that went into developing it. It's kind of ironic the practice is even carried on when an LLM writes the proof.

emil-lpyesterday at 7:17 PM

The prompt was released, but not the cost of the result.

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not-a-llmyesterday at 7:24 PM

pretty sure already millions of dollars (in inference costs) were already thrown at the Riehmann hypothesis

as the models get stronger, larger amounts will be thrown at it

imagine paying "just $1 bil" to go down in history as the company who's model solved the hardest/most famous open problem in mathematics. imagine the worldwide press headlines.

as they say, the Riehmann Hypothesis is the hardest way to earn a million dollar

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