alt Hacker News> All of the latest big proofs were driven by professional human mathematicians steering and priming the models, yes.
False, navier stokes was solved in one shot without steering
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rsfern • last Sunday at 3:51 PM
According to OpenAI, but they haven’t exactly been transparent about what information the prompt entailed.
The bigger question is to what extent did expert mathematicians metaprompt the model with fruitful solution strategies through their sessions finding their way into training data. Answering that question definitively is kind of important for understanding the models contribution/capability. But I feel like people want to turn this into a debate about priority and credit which is sort of secondary
I like how all the replies to me are either "no it's the humans who did it" or "no it's the AI that did it".
I think one of the significant recent proofs was basically just one person saying "solve this" "keep trying" "try harder" until it was done. I believe most of the rest can be assumed to be the human mathematicians at the very least providing some useful guidance.
I agree that it won't be that long before the AIs can do basically everything autonomously, though. I am essentially a Singularitarian when it comes to my outlook, even if not for September 2026.