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🌈ᚩ🌈@bonifartius@noauthority.social (2026-08-20 16:24:49)
@sun seems she was doing research in this area for her whole life https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-99-year-old-mathematician-unraveled-a-century-old-braid-mystery/

i don't see how llms can come up with a new proof, given their statistical nature. they can replicate the style of existing art, but coming up with a new style seems impossible to me.
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Caleb James DeLisle@cjd@pkteerium.xyz (2026-08-20 16:29:55)
They're definitely able to have new ideas. I'm often asking questions that I'm pretty confident nobody else in the world ever asks, and they're surprisingly effective at reasoning their way to a line of thinking that serves the question well...

It wouldn't surprise me at all if they were solving real unsolved problems...

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🌈ᚩ🌈@bonifartius@noauthority.social (2026-08-20 16:42:57)
@cjd @sun they can reuse parts of existing things and recombine them by pattern matching. which is fine, i guess, but it's not new.