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colechristensenlast Monday at 9:50 PM2 repliesview on HN

Yes, we're in the low hanging fruit stage where folks can just say "here's the problem" and "keep going" until a result is found and it will work sometimes.

The low hanging fruit will run short. Ultimately mathematics is a field of subjective selections of problems and proofs as beautiful and interesting. Machines absolutely will struggle with what to study, what theorems are desirable, and when do be done with a proof.


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bonoboTPlast Monday at 10:12 PM

> Machines absolutely will struggle with what to study, what theorems are desirable, and when do be done with a proof

And why do you think this would be the case? I'm not talking about today but in 1-2 years. For reference o1 was released less than 2 years ago, and we've had reasonable coding agents for 9 months or so.

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pixl97last Monday at 11:29 PM

While they may struggle on what to study, we'll be able to spin up millions of them.