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Comment by saithound

19 hours ago

> The two big discoveries both came from the negligible handful of mathematicians working at OpenAI/Anthropic in spite of many orders of magnitude more mathematicians using them outside of the companies

Well, mathematicians not working for Anthropic/OpenAI are heavily disincentivised from reporting that their discoveries were made using AI. If e.g. the idea that resolved the Mahler conjecture came from AI, it's not like we'd ever know.