Comment by pbronez

So much about LLMs can be framed as Information Retrieval, Compression, and Search. Computers have always been good at ruthlessly hammering through a huge but finite set of possibilities. The wild thing now is that you can define that set of possibilities as "all the ideas ever published in mathematics journals."

It makes solving advanced math problems feel like cracking a hash. If it's possible, it's just a matter of compute time.