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When an "AI" provider announces a new result, remember they have a product to sell. Watch for the careful and systematic ways human labour is elided at every step and claims about the model and the 'discovery' process are shielded from direct inspection Today's specimen: openai.com/index/model-...

openai.comAn OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometryAn OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics.

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A single result presented, no account of how many attempts External experts paraded, no disclosure of internal checking Two paper-shaped objects, no notes on authorship, contributions, quality control A 'rewritten chain of thought', no access to the original and no disclosure of how, why, by whom

You cannot brute force proofs like this. Which is why it hasn't been done before. Automated proof engines don't have a very dramatic track record. The most prominent one solved was the four color theorem, but it's proof is so long it can't be verified. Nothing at all like the present situation.

Thank you, these things are always covered by news media as if they're 100% truth. It's infuriating.