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A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
(mathandai.org)
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
I believe the cases of ”math problems settled by AI” will slow down. Anthropic probably want some high profile math problem at the same level as Navier-Stokes, but after that I don’t think there will be as much progress.
They got the publicity stunt they wanted. What more is there to gain? Navier-Stokes costed many millions to settle, and probably was close to being resolved by human mathematicians either way. Who else has anything to gain by spending ridiculous amounts of compute on true/false answers?
My guess is that the AI companies will focus on finding publicity stunts in other fields. Possibly medicine.