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Yep. There may be only 25-50 people alive today in the whole world who can credibly claim to understand Wiles' proof. Now we add an LLM to that list. Absolutely
by bjourne 12d ago
Yep. There may be only 25-50 people alive today in the whole world who can credibly claim to understand Wiles' proof. Now we add an LLM to that list. Absolutely mind-blowing stuff.
- simpaticoder 12d agoBut isn't that understanding discarded? It is if you mean "intermediate working state" while it was generating the LEAN code. Which raises the question: I wonder what other directions it could have gone in those intermediate states? Is it possible to snapshot the state of an LLM (or a cluster of them) "in the middle of proving FLT" and then prompt it to go in a different direction with all that context?
- bigstrat2003 12d ago> Now we add an LLM to that list. No we cannot. LLMs do not, by their very nature, understand a single thing. You are giving far too much credence to hype and marketing.
- bjourne 12d agoA meme free of charge for you, sir: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1jl5qfs/its_just_predicting_tokens_v2/ https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1jl5qfs/its_ju...
- traes 12d ago25-50 seems like a pretty lowball estimate, I guess depending on your definition of "understand."