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Comment by zozbot234

7 days ago

That's not really how it works, the recent Erdos proofs in Lean were done by a specialized proprietary model (Aristotle by Harmonic) that's specifically trained for this task. Normal agents are not effective.

Why did you omit the other AI-generated Erdos proofs not done by a proprietary model, which occurred on timescales stretched across significantly longer time than 5 days?

  • Those were not really "proofs" by the standard of 1stproof. The only way an AI can possibly convince an unsympathetic peer reviewer that its proof is correct is to write it completely in a formal system like Lean. The so-called "proofs" done with GPT were half baked and required significant human input, hints, fixing after the fact etc. which is enough to disqualify them from this effort.

    • That wasn't my recollection. The individual who generated one of the proofs did a write-up for his methodology and it didn't involve a human correcting the model.