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hintymadyesterday at 7:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

> I don't know why anyone should care about understanding the results if the AI is better at math than us

This is a big if, right? AI can still generate subtle or even silly mistakes that any normal human, let alone a mathematician, wouldn't make. Besides, math is more than just getting a conclusion but to understand and to generalize new ways of solving problems. After all, mathematicians are a curious bunch. To quote Hilbert's epitaph: We must know. We shall know.


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bayesnetyesterday at 7:30 PM

It’s a bit of an ominous quote given that Hilbert’s program was dismantled shortly thereafter by Gödel…

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a2ff6eeb0yesterday at 7:33 PM

Well, that's why we have automated proof checking. And again, I don't think humans will be able to solve problems at a commercial scale in the future.

Maybe we'll have some hobbyist dabblers, but any real progress will be done by machines that skip the human.