LeCun: Automated Formal Proves Usher in a New Era for Math

Yann LeCun says math is entering a new era as formal proofs become massively automated, likening AI to ships that made swimming less important while enabling the discovery of new continents; some commenters counter that machines cannot judge good questions.

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