Comment by nl

1 day ago

Interesting that in Terrance Tao's words: "though the new proof is still rather different from the literature proof)"

And even odder that the proof was by Erdos himself and yet he listed it as an open problem!

Maybe it was in the training set.

  • I think that was Tao's point, that the new proof was not just read out of the training set.

    • I don't think it is dispositive, just that it likely didn't copy the proof we know was in the training set.

      A) It is still possible a proof from someone else with a similar method was in the training set.

      B) something similar to erdos's proof was in the training set for a different problem and had a similar alternate solution to chatgpt, and was also in the training set, which would be more impressive than A)

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