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Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?

293 points · 384 comments · auggierose

  1. vatsachak · · focus · HN ↗
    Why is Terry Tao even talking these arguments when all OpenAI did was a sophisticated brute force search with LLMs?

    Give them Navier-Stokes in a vacuum

    1. red75prime · · focus · HN ↗
      Brute-force search is called that specifically for its lack of sophistication. A "sophisticated brute search" is an oxymoron.
      1. vatsachak · · focus · HN ↗
        You're right. But...

        Spending 132 billion tokens is definitely way more energy than human mathematicians would have thrown at the problem and probably would have solved within two years.

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