'Sampling Is Not Understanding': AI Computes but Doesn't Grasp Math
Gerard Sans argues that frontier AI doing math is like AlphaGo's move 37: it computes and samples, producing verifiable proofs without genuine understanding, and thus cannot replace mathematicians.
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