Mathematicians Debate Whether AI's Brute-Force Proofs Are Elegant

AI-generated brute-force proofs are sparking debate among mathematicians, with critics calling them unsatisfying and others, like RL researcher Szepesvári, comparing the discomfort to the early reaction to the computer-assisted Four Color Theorem proof.

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