Re:Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician
by TheRealPomax on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @10:52AM
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As amazing as they may seem, they're still just autocompletes, it's inherent to what an LLM is. So unless we come up with a completely new kind technology, I don't see "test this conjecture for me" becoming more real than the computer assisted proof tooling we already have.
Thank you for the question.
I guess what I'm saying is:
Will LLMs (or whatever comes after them) be _so_ good and _so_ pervasive that we will simply be able to say, "Hey ChatGPT-9000, I'd like to see if the xyz conjecture is correct." And then ChatGPT-9000 just does the work without us contributing beyond asking a question.
Or will the technology be limited/bound in some way such that we will still be able to use ChatGPT-9000 as a tool of our own intellectual augmentation and/or we could still contribute to research even without it.
Hopefully, my comment clarifies my original post.
Also, writing this stuff has helped me think about it more. I don't have any grand insight, but the more I write, the more I lean toward the outcome that these machines will allow us to augment our research.