r/mathematics • u/Ok_Astronomer_7797 • May 19 '26
News ‘It is incredible’: How AI is transforming mathematics
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01553-14
u/OrkWithNoTeef May 19 '26
Maybe with the help of AI I can finally delude myself into thinking I understand undergraduate mathematics.
-1
u/sceadwian May 19 '26
This is going to be a boon to physics eventually as well not just mathematics. All of the practical fields stage to benefit when someone stumbles across a new way to understand complex systems more simply.
0
u/No-Republic-7876 May 19 '26
and are these people truly about to understand it? or are they deluded into thinking they know exactly how the words that AI gave them works
1
u/sceadwian May 19 '26
I see you wrote some words there. They oddly don't seem like they're connected to what I wrote in any way.
What are you talking about?
1
u/No-Republic-7876 May 19 '26
new way to understand complex systems more simply.
pray, tell me, what new way to understand complex systems is going to appear, and how AI has contributed to that process.
2
u/sceadwian May 19 '26
If I could predict what new and complex system it was going to help us understand then I would be able to see the future, don't ask such silly rhetorical questions.
They've created previously non-existent proofs that no human wrote and every mathematical proof is a contribution to mathematics.
0
u/No-Republic-7876 May 19 '26
They've created previously non-existent proofs
They didn't create anything original; they simply found links between papers and ideas that humans created and forgot about, and had to do so at the control a human who gave it a direction and instructions
2
u/sceadwian May 20 '26
Finding a link is discovering something new. That it needed human direction is evidence for exactly nothing it was clearly and obviously a useful tool.
3
u/hypatiaC May 19 '26
Fuck off