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wistytoday at 4:18 AM0 repliesview on HN

Also AI seem pretty good at constructive proofs.

Most of the breakthroughs so far have been finding counter examples. They can just search tirelessly to find one. Finding a good algorithm (maybe even one faster than people assume is possible) seems the obvious next step for them (as opposed to more conceptual proofs e.g. existance or non-existence where they still aren't quite terrifyingly good).

The phrase "for all we know some undergrad might find a counter example" is the new "it works for n<100 so I don't see why it won't continue indefinitely".